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Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
New King James Version
Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
New King James Version
The God-Given Task
9 (A)What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? 10 (B)I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that (C)no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
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Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
English Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
English Standard Version
The God-Given Task
9 What (A)gain has the worker from his toil? 10 I have seen (B)the business that (C)God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11 He has (D)made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot (E)find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
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Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
New International Version
9 What do workers gain from their toil?(A) 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.(B) 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.(C) He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom(D) what God has done from beginning to end.(E)
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- Ecclesiastes 3:11 Or also placed ignorance in the human heart, so that
Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
New American Standard Bible
Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
New American Standard Bible
9 (A)What benefit is there for the worker from that in which he labors? 10 I have seen the (B)task which God has given the sons of mankind with which to [a]occupy themselves.
God Set Eternity in the Heart of Mankind
11 He has (C)made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without the possibility that mankind (D)will find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.
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- Ecclesiastes 3:10 Or trouble
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