Ecclesiastes 3:11
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11 (A)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.
Ecclesiastes 7:13
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13 Consider the work of God. Who can make straight what God has made crooked?(A)
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Ecclesiastes 8:17
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17 (A)and I saw all the work of God: No mortal can find out the work that is done under the sun. However much mortals may toil in searching, no one finds it out; and even if the wise claim to know, they are unable to find it out.
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