Parallel Bible results for "ecclesiastes 3:11-14"

Ecclesiastes 3:11-14

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11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also given men a sense of what he's been doing down through the ages. But they can't completely figure out what he's done from the beginning to the end.
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
12 They should be happy and do good while they live. I know there's nothing better for them to do than that.
12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.
13 Everyone should eat and drink. People should be satisfied with all of their hard work. That is God's gift to them.
13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.
14 I know that everything God does will last forever. Nothing can be added to it. And nothing can be taken from it. God does that so men will have respect for him.
14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.
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