Ecclesiastes 3:11
Holman Christian Standard Bible
11 He has made everything appropriate[a] in its time.(A) He has also put eternity in their hearts,[b] but man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end.(B)
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- Ecclesiastes 3:11 Or beautiful
- Ecclesiastes 3:11 Or has put a sense of past and future into their minds, or has placed ignorance in their hearts
Ecclesiastes 3:11
New International Version
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.(A) He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom(B) what God has done from beginning to end.(C)
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- Ecclesiastes 3:11 Or also placed ignorance in the human heart, so that
Ecclesiastes 7:25-29
Holman Christian Standard Bible
25 I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and seek wisdom(A) and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness. 26 And I find more bitter than death(B) the woman who is a trap,(C) her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her. 27 “Look,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation, 28 which my soul continually searches for but does not find: among a thousand people I have found one true man, but among all these I have not found a true woman.(D) 29 Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright,(E) but they pursued many schemes.”
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Ecclesiastes 7:25-29
New International Version
25 So I turned my mind to understand,
to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things(A)
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
and the madness of folly.(B)
26 I find more bitter than death
the woman who is a snare,(C)
whose heart is a trap
and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
but the sinner she will ensnare.(D)
27 “Look,” says the Teacher,[a](E) “this is what I have discovered:
“Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
28 while I was still searching
but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
but not one upright woman(F) among them all.
29 This only have I found:
God created mankind upright,
but they have gone in search of many schemes.”
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- Ecclesiastes 7:27 Or the leader of the assembly
Ecclesiastes 11:5
Holman Christian Standard Bible
5 Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,
or how bones develop in[a] the womb of a pregnant woman,
so you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.(A)
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- Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or know how the life-breath comes to the bones in
Ecclesiastes 11:5
New International Version
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- Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or know how life (or the spirit) / enters the body being formed
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