then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover.

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night— 17 then I saw all that God has done.

17 then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out.

No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning.

I saw everything God has done. No one can understand what happens on earth. Man might try very hard to figure it out. But he still can't discover what it all ...

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night— then I saw all that God has done.

then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out.

Ecclesiastes 8:17 · ESV then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. · NIV then I saw all that God has done.

There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve.

Ecclesiastes 8. 1: Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance.