Parallel Verses English Standard Version He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. King James Bible 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. 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. Douay-Rheims Bible He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot flnd out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end. English Revised Version He hath made every thing beautiful in its time: also he hath set the world in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Ecclesiastes 3:11 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament"To throw stones has its time, and to gather together stones has its time; to embrace has its time, and to refrain from embracing has its time." Did the old Jewish custom exist at the time of the author, of throwing three shovelfuls of earth into the grave, and did this lead him to use the phrase השׁ אבּ? But we do not need so incidental a connection of the thought, for the first pair accords with the specific idea of life and death; by the throwing of stones a field is destroyed, 2 Kings 3:25, or as expressed at 2 Kings 3:19 is marred; and by gathering the stones together and removing them (which is called סקּל), it is brought under cultivation. Does לה, to embrace, now follow because it is done with the arms and hands? Scarcely; but the loving action of embracing stands beside the hostile, purposely injurious throwing of stones into a field, not exclusively (2 Kings 4:16), but yet chiefly (as e.g., at Proverbs 5:20) as referring to love for women; the intensive in the second member is introduced perhaps only for the purpose of avoiding the paronomasia lirhhoq mahhavoq. The following pair of contrasts is connected with the avoiding or refraining from the embrace of love: - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge hath made also Job 11:7 Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the Almighty to perfection? Cross References Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! Genesis 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Job 5:9 who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number: Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? Ecclesiastes 7:23 All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me. Jump to Previous Beautiful Beginning End Eternity Fathom Find First Heart Hearts Last Maketh Mind Right Time Unable Work Works WorldJump to Next Beautiful Beginning End Eternity Fathom Find First Heart Hearts Last Maketh Mind Right Time Unable Work Works WorldLinks Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIVEcclesiastes 3:11 NLT Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV Ecclesiastes 3:11 NASB Ecclesiastes 3:11 KJV Ecclesiastes 3:11 Bible Apps Ecclesiastes 3:11 Biblia Paralela Ecclesiastes 3:11 Chinese Bible Ecclesiastes 3:11 French Bible Ecclesiastes 3:11 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |