Ecclesiastes 3:11 “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity…”

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

He hath made euery thing beautifull in his time: also he hath set the worlde in their heart, yet can not man finde out the worke that God hath wrought from the beginning euen to the end.

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.

Young's 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.

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.

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Cross references

“hath made”

Mark 7:37 Genesis 1:31 Ecclesiastes 7:29 Deuteronomy 32:4

Mark 7:37 · BSB

The people were utterly astonished and said, “He has done all things well! He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”

Genesis 1:31 · BSB

And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 · BSB

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Deuteronomy 32:4 · BSB

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

“also”

Matthew 13:22 Romans 1:28 Romans 1:19 Romans 1:20

Matthew 13:22 · BSB

The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Romans 1:28 · BSB

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 1:19 · BSB

For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

Romans 1:20 · BSB

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

“so”

Romans 11:33 Job 11:7 Ecclesiastes 8:17 Psalm 104:24 Job 37:23 Matthew 11:27

Romans 11:33 · BSB

O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

Job 11:7 · BSB

Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

Ecclesiastes 8:17 · BSB

I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to…

Psalm 104:24 · BSB

How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Job 37:23 · BSB

The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.

Matthew 11:27 · BSB

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

Also

Job 5:9

Job 5:9 · BSB

the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.

12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,

Read Ecclesiastes 3