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No One Understands God’s Mysterious Plan

10 I have seen the busyness God gives to humans[a] to preoccupy[b] them. 11 He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put the past[c] in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end. 12 So I realized that there is nothing better[d] for them than to rejoice and enjoy themselves[e] during their lives.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:10 Literally “the sons of the man”
  2. Ecclesiastes 3:10 Or “to be busy”
  3. Ecclesiastes 3:11 Literally “eternity”
  4. Ecclesiastes 3:12 Literally “no good”
  5. Ecclesiastes 3:12 Literally “to rejoice and to do good”