¹⁷ Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

¹¹ He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

³³ O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

¹⁶ When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

²³ All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

²⁴ Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

⁹ Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

²⁸ Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.

⁵ As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

³ I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.

⁴ Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

²⁴ O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

⁵ O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

⁷ Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

⁸ They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

⁹ Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.