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10 I have seen the kinds of tasks God has given each of us to do to keep one busy, 11 and I know God has made everything beautiful for its time. God has also placed in our minds a sense of eternity; we look back on the past and ponder over the future, yet we cannot understand the doings of God. 12 I know there is nothing better for us than to be joyful and to do good throughout our lives;

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10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.(A) 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.(B) He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom(C) what God has done from beginning to end.(D) 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 3:11 Or also placed ignorance in the human heart, so that

10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

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