Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
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God Controls His World
9 Do people really gain anything from their hard work? 10 I saw all the hard work God gave us to do. 11 God gave us the ability to think about his world,[a] but we can never completely understand everything he does. And yet, he does everything at just the right time.
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- Ecclesiastes 3:11 the ability … world Or “a desire to know the future.”
Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
New International Version
9 What do workers gain from their toil?(A) 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.(B) 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.(C) He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom(D) what God has done from beginning to end.(E)
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- Ecclesiastes 3:11 Or also placed ignorance in the human heart, so that
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