Ecclesiastes 3:9-12

9 What do workers gain from their toil?
10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.

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Cross References 5

  • 1. S Ecclesiastes 1:3
  • 2. S Ecclesiastes 1:13
  • 3. S ver 1
  • 4. S Job 11:7; Ecclesiastes 8:17
  • 5. S Job 28:23; Romans 11:33

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "also placed ignorance in the human heart, so that"
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