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Ecclesiastes 11

Eccl. 11:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Asy thou knowest
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
not what is the way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
of the spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
, nor howz the bones
`etsem (Hebrew #6106)
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV usage: body, bone, X life, (self-)same, strength, X very.
Pronounce: eh'tsem
Origin: from 6105
do grow in the womb
beten (Hebrew #990)
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
KJV usage: belly, body, + as they be born, + within, womb.
Pronounce: beh'-ten
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow
of her that is with child
male' (Hebrew #4392)
full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully
KJV usage: X she that was with child, fill(-ed, -ed with), full(-ly), multitude, as is worth.
Pronounce: maw-lay'
Origin: from 4390
: even so thou knowest
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
not the works
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
of God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
who maketh
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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John 3:8• 8The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it cometh, and where it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (John 3:8)
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Psa. 139:15• 15Not concealed was my frame from thee,{HR}When I was made in the hiding place,{HR}Embroidered in earth's lowest parts. (Psa. 139:15)

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thou knowest not what.
John 3:8• 8The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it cometh, and where it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (John 3:8)
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Psa. 139:14‑15• 14I thank thee, because I am fearfully, wonderfully made:{HR}Wonderful [are] thy works, and my soul knoweth [it] right well.
 15Not concealed was my frame from thee,{HR}When I was made in the hiding place,{HR}Embroidered in earth's lowest parts. (Psa. 139:14‑15)
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Eccl. 7:24• 24That which is far off,{HR}And exceeding deep,{HR}Who will find it out? (Eccl. 7:24)
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Eccl. 8:17• 17Then I beheld all the work of God,{HR}That man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun:{HR}Because however much a man labour to seek out,{HR}Yet he shall not find;{HR}Yea moreover, though a wise man think to know,{HR}Yet shall he not be able to find. (Eccl. 8:17)
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Job 5:9• 9Who doeth great things and unsearchable,{HR}{i}Marvelous things without number{/i}; (Job 5:9)
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Job 26:5‑14• 5The shades [Rephaim] tremble{HR}Beneath the waters, and they that dwell there.
 6Sheol [is] naked before him,{HR}And destruction hath no covering.
 7He spreadeth the north over the void,{HR}He hangeth the earth upon nothing.
 8He bindeth up waters in his thick clouds,{HR}And the cloud is not rent under them.
 9He fasteneth the face of the throne,{HR}He spreadeth over it his cloud.
 10He hath placed a bound on the face of the waters,{HR}Up to the limits of light and darkness.
 11The pillars of the heavens tremble,{HR}And are astonished at his rebuke.
 12By his power he stilleth the sea,{HR}And by his understanding smiteth Rahab.
 13By his Spirit the heavens are brightness,{HR}His hand pierceth the fleeing serpent.
 14Lo, these [are] the ends of his ways,{HR}And what a whisper of a word we hear of him!{HR}And the thunder of his might who understandeth? (Job 26:5‑14)
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Job 36:24‑33• 24Remember that thou magnify his work,{HR}Which mortals behold;
 25All men looked on it;{HR}Mortal man looketh attentively from afar.
 26Lo! God [is] great — we know not;{HR}As for the number of his years, [there is] no searching.
 27When he draineth off the drops of water,{HR}They condense into rain in place of its mist,
 28So that clouds drop, they distil copiously on man.
 29Yea, doth one understand the spreading of the cloud?{HR}The noises of his tabernacle?
 30Lo! He hath spread over it his light,{HR}And hath covered the depths of the sea.
 31For by them he judgeth the nations;{HR}He giveth, food in abundance.
 32On both hands he covereth lightning,{HR}And giveth it a charge in striking.
 33The noise of it announceth concerning him,{HR}Store of wrath against perversity. (Job 36:24‑33)
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Job 37:23• 23The Almighty! we do not find him out;{HR}Great in power and judgment,{HR}And great in righteousness, he will not give answer. (Job 37:23)
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Job 38:4‑41• 4Where wast thou when I founded the earth?{HR}Declare if thou hast understanding.
 5Who fixed its measure that thou shouldest know,{HR}Or who stretched the line upon it?
 6Whereon are its sockets sunken,{HR}Or who laid down its corner-stone,
 7When the morning stars sang together,{HR}And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
 8And [who] shut up the sea with doors,{HR}When it burst forth — came out of the womb,
 9When I made the cloud its garment,{HR}And thick darkness its swaddling-band,
 10And broke for it my law, and set bars and doors,
 11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther,{HR}And here let one set against the pride of thy waves?
 12Hast thou, from thy days, commanded the mornings,{HR}Made the dawn to know its place,
 13To take hold of the wings of the earth,{HR}That the wicked might be shaken out of it,
 14That it may change like signet-clay,{HR}And things stand forth like a garment,
 15And from the wicked their light is withheld,{HR}And the uplifted arm is broken?
 16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea,{HR}And walked about the secret of the deep?
 17Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee?{HR}And seest thou the gates of the shadow of death?
 18Hast thou strictly attended to the breadths of the earth?{HR}Declare if thou knowest the whole of it.
 19What [is] the way the light dwelleth,{HR}And darkness, where [is] its place,
 20That thou mightest bring it to its bound,{HR}And that thou mightest know the path [to] its house?
 21Thou knowest! for thou wast then born,{HR}And the number of thy days [is] great.
 22Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow,{HR}Or hast thou seen the storehouses of the hail,
 23Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,{HR}Against the day of battle and war?
 24Where is the way the light is distributed,{HR}The east wind is dispersed over the earth?
 25Who divideth watercourses for the torrents,{HR}Or a way for the lightning of thunder,
 26To cause it to rain on the land [where is] no man.{HR}The wilderness wherein [is] no man,
 27To satisfy the desolate and waste,{HR}And to make the place of the green herb to sprout?
 28Hath the rain a father?{HR}Or who begetteth the drops of dew?
 29Out of whose womb cometh the ice?{HR}And the frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth?
 30The waters hide themselves like stone,{HR}And the face of the deep cleaveth together.
 31Canst thou bind the bands of the Pleiades,{HR}Or unloose the traces of Orion?
 32Canst thou bring forth the Zodiac in his season,{HR}And as for Arcturus with its young, guide them?
 33Knowest thou the laws of heaven?{HR}Canst thou set its dominion over the earth?
 34Canst thou apply thy voice to the cloud,{HR}And abundance of water shall cover thee?
 35Canst thou send forth lightnings, and they shall go{HR}And say to thee, here we [are]!
 36Who put wisdom in the inward parts?{HR}Or who gave understanding to the perception?
 37Who regulateth the clouds by wisdom,{HR}Or who inclineth the pitchers of heaven,
 38When the dust is poured into hardness,{HR}And the clods are compacted together?
 39Dost thou hunt prey for the lioness,{HR}And fill the desire of the young lions,
 40When they couch in dens — abide in the covert in ambush?
 41Who provideth for the raven his meat,{HR}When his young cry to God [El] — wander without food? (Job 38:4‑41)
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Job 39:1‑41:34• 1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bear?{HR}Watchest thou over the calving of the hinds?
 2Numberest thou the months that they fulfil?{HR}And knowest thou the time of their bearing?
 3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young,{HR}They cast away their pangs.
 4Their young fatten, grow up in the desert,{HR}They go forth, and return to them no more!
 5Who sent forth the wild ass free,{HR}And who loosed the bands of the fleeing one?
 6Whose house I made the desert, and his abode the salt land.
 7He laugheth at the tumult of the city,{HR}The cries of the driver he heareth not,
 8The range of mountains [is] his pasture,{HR}And he seeketh after every green thing.
 9Will the wild ox choose to serve thee?{HR}Will he pass the night over thy crib?
 10Dost thou bind the wild ox in the furrow of his cord?{HR}Doth he harrow the valleys after thee?
 11Wilt thou trust him because his strength [is] great?{HR}And wilt thou leave unto him thy labour?
 12Dost thou trust him that he will bring back thy seed,{HR}And gather up thy threshing-floor?
 13The wing of the ostrich waveth joyously:{HR}Is it the pinion and plumage of the stork?
 14For she leaveth on the earth her eggs,{HR}And warmeth [them] on the dust,
 15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them,{HR}And that the wild beast may trample them.
 16She is hard on her young [as if ] not for her;{HR}Without fear her labour is in vain;
 17For God hath caused her to forget wisdom,{HR}And hath not given her a portion in understanding;
 18What time she lifteth herself up on high,{HR}She laugheth at the horse, and at his rider.
 19Dost thou give to the horse might?{HR}Dost thou clothe his neck with quivering mane?
 20Dost thou make him leap like the, locust?{HR}The majesty of his snorting is terrible.
 21They paw in the valley, and he exulteth in strength;{HR}He goeth forth to meet the armour.
 22He laugheth at fear, and trembleth not,{HR}Nor turneth back from the face of the sword.
 23Against him rattleth the quiver, the blade of spear and lance.
 24With rush and rage he swalloweth the ground,{HR}And stayeth not fixed when the trumpet soundeth.
 25Among the trumpets he saith, Aha!{HR}And from afar he scenteth the battle,{HR}The thunder of the chieftains, and the shouting.
 26Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom,{HR}And spread his pinions to the south?
 27Doth the eagle mount up at thy bidding,{HR}And build his nest on high?
 28He inhabiteth a rock, and lodgeth{HR}On the tooth of a rock, and a fastness.
 29Thence he espieth food; afar his eyes behold,
 30And his young ones lap blood,{HR}And where the slain [are], there [is] he.
 1And Jehovah answered Job, and said,
 2Is the censurer to correct with the Almighty?{HR}The reprover of God, let him answer it.
 3And Job answered Jehovah, and said,
 4Lo! I am vile: what shall I answer thee?{HR}I have laid my hand on my mouth;
 5Once have I spoken, but I will not reply,{HR}Yea, twice, but I will add no more.
 6And Jehovah answered Job out of the storm, and said,
 7Gird up now thy loins like a man:{HR}I will ask thee, and cause thou me to know.
 8Wilt thou also annul my judgment?{HR}Wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be justified?
 9Or hast thou an arm like God (El),{HR}And with a voice like him dost thou thunder?
 10Put on, then, majesty and grandeur,{HR}And honour and beauty put on;
 11Scatter abroad the outbursts of thine anger,{HR}See every proud one, and humble him;
 12See every proud one — make him bow,{HR}And tread down the wicked in their place;
 13Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret:
 14Then even I will praise thee, that thy right hand saveth thee.
 15Behold, now, Behemoth, which I made with thee:{HR}He eateth chives as an ox.
 16Behold, now, his strength [is] in his loins,{HR}And his might in the muscles of his belly.
 17As a cedar he bendeth his tail;{HR}The sinews of his thighs are knit together,
 18His bones [are] tubes of copper, his spine as a bar of iron.
 19He [is] chief of the ways of God:{HR}His Maker presented his scythe,
 20For the mountains bring food for him,{HR}And all the beasts of the field play there.
 21Under the lotuses he lieth down,{HR}In the covert of the reed and the fen;
 22The lotuses cover him with their shade,{HR}The osiers of the water-course cover him.
 23Lo, a flood overfloweth — he hasteth not away,{HR}He is confident when a Jordan rusheth to his mouth.
 24Doth [one] take him before his eyes?{HR}Doth [he] pierce through the nose with snares?
 1Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle,{HR}Or, with a cord thou lettest down, his tongue?
 2Dost thou put a rush in his nose,{HR}Or bore his jaw with a thorn?
 3Will he multiply supplications to thee?{HR}Will he speak to thee tender things?
 4Will he make a covenant with thee?{HR}Wilt thou take him [for] ever as a slave?
 5Wilt thou sport with him as a bird, and bind him for thy girls?
 6Let partners bargain for him — divide him among traders!
 7Dost thou fill his skin with pikes, or his head with fish-spears?
 8Put thine hand on him — remember the battle —{HR}Thou wilt not do it again:
 9Behold, his hope proveth false.{HR}Even at the sight of him is not [one] cast down?
 10None is so fierce as to provoke him.{HR}And who [is] he that maketh a stand before me?
 11Who first gave to me, and I must repay?{HR}Under the whole heaven it [is] mine.
 12I will not be silent about his parts,{HR}And the matter of his powers, and the beauty of his structure.
 13Who hath uncovered the face of his garment?{HR}Into his double jaws who entereth in?
 14The doors of his face, who hath opened?{HR}Round about his teeth [is] terror;
 15A pride [are] the concave shields, shut up [as] a close seal;
 16One to another they join, and air entereth not between them;
 17One to another they adhere, they hold together, and separate not.
 18His sneezing flasheth forth light,{HR}And his eyes [are] as eyelids of the dawn.
 19Out of his mouth proceed torches, sparks of fire escape.
 20Out of his nostrils issue the smoke,{HR}As out of a seething pot and caldron.
 21His breath kindleth coals,{HR}And a flame cometh out from his mouth.
 22In his neck strength lodgeth, and before him danceth terror.
 23The flakes of his flesh are fitted close together;{HR}They are fixed fast on him, immovable.
 24His heart [is] firm as a stone, as a nether [millstone].
 25At his rising up the mighty tremble;{HR}From terror they miss their mark.
 26The sword of his overtaker doth not hold, spear, mace, nor lance;
 27He reckoneth iron as straw, copper as rotten wood;
 28The bolt (child) of the bow causeth him not to flee;{HR}Sling-stones are changed into stubble for him;
 29Clubs are reckoned as stubble;{HR}He laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
 30His under parts [are] the sharpest of shards;{HR}He spreadeth a threshing-roller on the mire.
 31He maketh the deep boil as a pot,{HR}He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;
 32After him he maketh the path to shine —{HR}One would think the deep hoary.
 33There is not on the dust dominion over him,{HR}Who is made to be without dread;
 34He looketh on all that is high,{HR}He [is] king over all the sons of pride. (Job 39:1‑41:34)
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Psa. 40:5• 5Great things hast thou done, O Jehovah my God;{HR}Thy wonderful deeds and thy thoughts to us none can set in order to thee:{HR}I would declare and speak—they are too many to be numbered. (Psa. 40:5)
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Psa. 92:5• 5How great are thy works, O Jehovah!{HR}Very deep [are] thy thoughts. (Psa. 92:5)
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Psa. 104:24• 24How manifold are thy works, O Jehovah!{HR}In wisdom hast thou wrought them all:{HR}The earth is full of thy riches. (Psa. 104:24)
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Isa. 40:28• 28Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [There is] no searching of his understanding. (Isa. 40:28)
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Rom. 11:33• 33O depth of God's riches and wisdom and knowledge! how unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways! (Rom. 11:33)

J. N. Darby Translation

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As thou knowest not what is the way of the spiritm, how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "the wind."

W. Kelly Translation

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As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind,{HR}Nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child;{HR}Even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.