Ecclesiastes 11:5
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5Just as you’ll never understand
the mystery of life forming in a pregnant woman,
So you’ll never understand
the mystery at work in all that God does.
Copyright 2005 Eugene H. Peterson.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
As you do not know the path of the wind,
or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb,
so you cannot understand the work of God,
the Maker of all things.
Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.
CSBChristian Standard Bible
Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,
or how bones develop in the womb of a pregnant woman,
so also you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
NLTNew Living Translation
Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Just as you do not know how the path of the wind goes,
nor how the bones of a fetus form in a mother’s womb,
so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
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