11 He has made everything appropriate[a] in its time.(A) He has also put eternity in their hearts,[b] but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.(B)

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  1. 3:11 Or beautiful
  2. 3:11 Or has put a sense of past and future into their minds, or has placed ignorance in their hearts

25 I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom(A) and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness. 26 And I find more bitter than death(B) the woman who is a trap:(C) her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her. 27 “Look,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation, 28 which my soul continually searches for but does not find: I found one person in a thousand, but none of those was a woman.(D) 29 Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright,(E) but they pursued many schemes.”

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Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,
or how bones develop in[a] the womb of a pregnant woman,
so also you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.(A)

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  1. 11:5 Or know how the life-breath comes to the bones in

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