Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 (A)What profit have workers from their toil? 10 I have seen the business that God has given to mortals to be busied about. 11 (B)God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless[a] into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.
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- 3:11 The timeless: others translate “eternity,” “the world,” or “darkness.” The author credits God with keeping human beings ignorant about God’s “work”—present and future.
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