¹⁶ When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;

¹⁷ then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

⁶ Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.

⁶ Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up `riches', and knoweth not who shall gather them.

¹⁹ Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.

² Clouds and darkness are round about him: Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

² Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;

³ And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One.

³² For he shall be delivered up unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and shamefully treated, and spit upon:

³³ and they shall scourge and kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

³⁴ And they understood none of these things; and this saying was hid from them, and they perceived not the things that were said.

¹⁸ They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he saith.

¹⁹ Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, A little while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?

³³ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!