As you do not know the way (A)the spirit comes to (B)the bones in the womb[a] of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts As you do not know the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb

(A)The wind[a] blows (B)where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

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  1. John 3:8 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit

17 then I saw all the work of God, that (A)man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, (B)he cannot find it out.

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How (A)great are your works, O Lord!
    Your (B)thoughts are very (C)deep!

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33 Oh, the depth of the riches and (A)wisdom and knowledge of God! (B)How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

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28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is (A)the everlasting God,
    the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
    (B)his understanding is unsearchable.

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24 O Lord, how manifold are your works!
    In (A)wisdom have you made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.

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24 That which has been is far off, and (A)deep, very deep; (B)who can find it out?

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13 For you (A)formed my inward parts;
    you (B)knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
(C)Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.
15 (D)My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in (E)the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your (F)book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.

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  1. Psalm 139:14 Or for I am fearfully set apart

You have multiplied, O Lord my God,
    your (A)wondrous deeds and your (B)thoughts toward us;
    none can compare with you!
I will proclaim and tell of them,
    yet they are (C)more than can be told.

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“Where were you when I (A)laid the foundation of the earth?
    Tell me, if you have understanding.
Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
    Or who stretched the line upon it?
On what were its bases sunk,
    or who laid its cornerstone,
when the morning stars (B)sang together
    and all (C)the sons of God (D)shouted for joy?

“Or who (E)shut in the sea with doors
    when it burst out from the womb,
when I made clouds its garment
    and (F)thick darkness its swaddling band,
10 and prescribed (G)limits for it
    and set bars and doors,
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
    and here shall your (H)proud waves be stayed’?

12 “Have you (I)commanded the morning since your days began,
    and caused the dawn to know its place,
13 that it might take hold of (J)the skirts of the earth,
    and the wicked be (K)shaken out of it?
14 It is changed like clay under the seal,
    and its features stand out like a garment.
15 From the wicked their (L)light is withheld,
    and (M)their uplifted arm is broken.

16 “Have you (N)entered into the springs of the sea,
    or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have (O)the gates of death been revealed to you,
    or have you seen the gates of (P)deep darkness?
18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
    Declare, if you know all this.

19 “Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
    and where is the place of darkness,
20 that you may take it to its territory
    and that you may discern (Q)the paths to its home?
21 You know, for (R)you were born then,
    and the number of your days is great!

22 “Have you entered (S)the storehouses of the snow,
    or have you seen (T)the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I have reserved (U)for the time of trouble,
    (V)for the day of battle and war?
24 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,
    or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

25 “Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain
    and (W)a way for the thunderbolt,
26 to bring rain on (X)a land where no man is,
    on (Y)the desert in which there is no man,
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
    and to make the ground sprout with (Z)grass?

28 “Has (AA)the rain a father,
    or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb did (AB)the ice come forth,
    and who has given birth to (AC)the frost of heaven?
30 The waters become hard like stone,
    and the face of the deep is (AD)frozen.

31 “Can you bind the chains of (AE)the Pleiades
    or loose the cords of (AF)Orion?
32 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth[a] in their season,
    or can you guide (AG)the Bear with its children?
33 Do you know (AH)the ordinances of the heavens?
    Can you establish their rule on the earth?

34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
    that (AI)a flood of waters may cover you?
35 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go
    and say to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Who has (AJ)put wisdom in (AK)the inward parts[b]
    or given understanding to the mind?[c]
37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
    Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
38 when the dust runs into a mass
    and (AL)the clods stick fast together?

39 “Can you hunt the prey for the lion,
    or (AM)satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40 when they crouch in their (AN)dens
    or lie in wait (AO)in their thicket?
41 Who provides for (AP)the raven its prey,
    when its young ones cry to God for help,
    and wander about for lack of food?

39 “Do you know when (AQ)the mountain goats give birth?
    Do you observe (AR)the calving of the does?
Can you number the months that they fulfill,
    and do you know the time when they give birth,
when they (AS)crouch, bring forth their offspring,
    and are delivered of their young?
Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;
    they go out and (AT)do not return to them.

“Who has let the wild donkey go free?
    Who has (AU)loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
to whom I have given (AV)the arid plain for his home
    and (AW)the salt land for his dwelling place?
He scorns the tumult of the city;
    he hears not the shouts of the driver.
He ranges the mountains as his pasture,
    and he searches after every green thing.

“Is (AX)the wild ox willing to serve you?
    Will he spend the night at your (AY)manger?
10 Can you bind (AZ)him in the furrow with ropes,
    or will he harrow the valleys after you?
11 Will you depend on him because his strength is great,
    and will you leave to him your labor?
12 Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain
    and gather it to your threshing floor?

13 “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
    but are they the pinions and plumage of love?[d]
14 For she leaves her eggs to the earth
    and lets them be warmed on the ground,
15 forgetting that a foot may crush them
    and that the wild beast may trample them.
16 She (BA)deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
    though her (BB)labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
17 because God has made her forget wisdom
    and (BC)given her no share in understanding.
18 When she rouses herself to flee,[e]
    she laughs at the horse and his rider.

19 “Do you give the horse his might?
    Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
20 Do you make him leap like the locust?
    His majestic (BD)snorting is terrifying.
21 He paws[f] in the valley and exults in his strength;
    he (BE)goes out to meet the weapons.
22 He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;
    he does not turn back from the sword.
23 Upon him rattle the quiver,
    the flashing spear, and the javelin.
24 With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;
    he cannot stand still at (BF)the sound of the trumpet.
25 When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’
    He smells the battle from afar,
    the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

26 “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars
    and spreads his wings toward the south?
27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
    and makes his (BG)nest on high?
28 On the rock he dwells and makes his home,
    on (BH)the rocky crag and stronghold.
29 From there he spies out the prey;
    his eyes behold it from far away.
30 His young ones suck up blood,
    and (BI)where the slain are, there is he.”

Footnotes

  1. Job 38:32 Probably the name of a constellation
  2. Job 38:36 Or in the ibis
  3. Job 38:36 Or rooster
  4. Job 39:13 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  5. Job 39:18 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  6. Job 39:21 Hebrew They paw

23 The Almighty—we (A)cannot find him;
    he is (B)great in power;
    (C)justice and abundant righteousness he will not (D)violate.

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24 “Remember to (A)extol his work,
    of which men have (B)sung.
25 All mankind has looked on it;
    man beholds it from afar.
26 Behold, God is great, and we (C)know him not;
    the number of his (D)years is unsearchable.
27 For he draws up the drops of water;
    they distill his (E)mist in (F)rain,
28 which (G)the skies pour down
    and drop on mankind abundantly.
29 Can anyone understand (H)the spreading of the clouds,
    the thunderings of his (I)pavilion?
30 Behold, he scatters his lightning about him
    and covers the roots of the sea.
31 For by these he (J)judges peoples;
    he gives (K)food in abundance.
32 He covers his (L)hands with the lightning
    and commands it to strike the mark.
33 Its crashing declares his presence;[a]
    the cattle also declare that he rises.

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  1. Job 36:33 Hebrew declares concerning him

The (A)dead tremble
    under the waters and their inhabitants.
Sheol is (B)naked before God,[a]
    and (C)Abaddon has no covering.
He (D)stretches out the north over (E)the void
    and hangs the earth on nothing.
He (F)binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
    and the cloud is not split open under them.
He covers the face of the full moon[b]
    and (G)spreads over it his cloud.
10 He has inscribed (H)a circle on the face of the waters
    at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 (I)The pillars of heaven tremble
    and are astounded at his (J)rebuke.
12 By his power he (K)stilled the sea;
    by his understanding he shattered (L)Rahab.
13 (M)By his wind the heavens were made fair;
    his hand pierced (N)the fleeing serpent.
14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his (O)ways,
    and how small (P)a whisper do we hear of him!
    But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

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  1. Job 26:6 Hebrew him
  2. Job 26:9 Or his throne

who (A)does great things and (B)unsearchable,
    (C)marvelous things without number:

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