Ecclesiastes 8:17 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:17

17: This reminded me that no one can discover everything God has created in our world, no matter how hard they work at it. Not even the wisest people know everything, even if they say they do.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

  1. God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.

Psalms 73:16

  1. So I tried to understand why the wicked prosper. But what a difficult task it is!

Romans 11:33

  1. Oh, what a wonderful God we have! How great are his riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his methods!

Job 5:9

  1. For he does great works too marvelous to understand. He performs miracles without number.

Ecclesiastes 7:23

  1. All along I have tried my best to let wisdom guide my thoughts and actions. I said to myself, "I am determined to be wise." But it didn't really work.
  2. Wisdom is always distant and very difficult to find.

Isaiah 40:28

  1. Have you never heard or understood? Don't you know that the LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth? He never grows faint or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding.

Proverbs 30:3

  1. I have not mastered human wisdom, nor do I know the Holy One.
  2. Who but God goes up to heaven and comes back down? Who holds the wind in his fists? Who wraps up the oceans in his cloak? Who has created the whole wide world? What is his name--and his son's name? Tell me if you know!

Job 11:7

  1. "Can you solve the mysteries of God? Can you discover everything there is to know about the Almighty?
  2. Such knowledge is higher than the heavens--but who are you? It is deeper than the underworld--what can you know in comparison to him?
  3. It is broader than the earth and wider than the sea.

Psalms 40:5

  1. O LORD my God, you have done many miracles for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

  1. God's ways are as hard to discern as the pathways of the wind, and as mysterious as a tiny baby being formed in a mother's womb.

Psalms 104:24

  1. O LORD, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures.
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