Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
He made everything appropriate in its time. He also placed eternity within them yet, no person can fully comprehend what God is doing from beginning to end.
New American Standard Bible
He has
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
He has made everything appropriate
A Conservative Version
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
American Standard Version
He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
Amplified
He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.
Bible in Basic English
He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.
Darby Translation
He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.
Julia Smith Translation
He made everything beautiful in his time: also he gave hidden time in their heart, so that man shall not find the work which God did from the beginning and even to the end.
King James 2000
He has made every thing beautiful in its time: also he has put eternity in men's hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put {the past} in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end.
Modern King James verseion
He has made everything beautiful in His time; also He has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All this hath he ordained marvelous goodly, to every thing his due time. He hath planted ignorance also in the hearts of men, that they should not find out the ground of his works, which he doth from the beginning to the end.
NET Bible
God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.
New Heart English Bible
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
The Emphasized Bible
Everything, hath he made beautiful in its own time, - also, intelligence, hath he put in their heart, without which men could not find out the work which God hath wrought, from the beginning even unto the end.
Webster
He hath made every thing beautiful in its 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.
World English Bible
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Youngs Literal Translation
The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.
Themes
God » Works of » General references to
Power » Of God » Described as » Incomprehensible
Topics
Interlinear
Yapheh
Nathan
`owlam
Leb
Matsa'
'elohiym
Devotionals
Devotionals about Ecclesiastes 3:11
Devotionals containing Ecclesiastes 3:11
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 3:11
Prayers for Ecclesiastes 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
No One Understands God's Mysterious Plan
10 I have observed the burdens placed by God on human beings in order to perfect them. 11 He made everything appropriate in its time. He also placed eternity within them yet, no person can fully comprehend what God is doing from beginning to end. 12 I have concluded that the only worthwhile thing for them is to take pleasure in doing good in life;
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:17
I saw all of it as the activity of God. Frankly, a human being cannot understand what happens on earth, because however hard a man works to discover it, he will not find out. Despite what he thinks he knows, he will not be able to figure it out.
Romans 11:33
O how deep are God's riches, and wisdom, and knowledge! How unfathomable are his decisions and unexplainable are his ways!
Genesis 1:31
Now God saw all that he had made, and indeed, it was very good! The twilight and the dawn were the sixth day.
Deuteronomy 32:4
Flawless is the work of the Rock, because all his ways are just. A faithful God never unjust righteous and upright is he.
Job 11:7
"Can you search through God's complex things? Can you uncover the limits of the Almighty?
Romans 1:28
Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.
Job 5:9
He is always doing great things that cannot be explained, countless awesome deeds.
Psalm 104:24
How numerous are your works, LORD! You have made them all wisely; the earth is filled with your creations.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
I have discovered only this: God made human beings for righteousness, but they seek many alternatives."
Matthew 11:27
All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one fully knows the Son except the Father, and no one fully knows the Father except the Son and the person to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Matthew 13:22
As for what was sown among the thorn bushes, this is the person who hears the word, but the worries of life and the deceitful pleasures of wealth choke the word so that it can't produce a crop.
Mark 7:37
Amazed beyond measure, they kept on saying, "He does everything well! He even makes deaf people hear and mute people talk!"
Romans 1:19-20
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God himself has made it plain to them.
Job 37:23
We cannot find the Almighty he is majestic in power and justice, and overflowing with righteousness; he never oppresses.