Holy Scripture

Ecclesiastes 11:5

A church father on this verse
“"As you do not know what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so you know not the works of God who makes all. "Just as you do not know the way of the spirit and of the soul entering a child, and are unknowing of the types of bone and veins in the stomach of a…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Source: Septuagint

Original

5Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: As the bones are hidden in the womb of a pregnant woman, So thou shalt not know the works of God, Even all things whatsoever he shall do.

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In context

3If the clouds be filled with rain, They pour it out upon the earth: And if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, In the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.

4He that observes the wind sows not; And he that looks at the clouds will not reap.

— Ecclesiastes 11:5 —

6In the morning sow thy seed, And in the evening let not thy hand be slack: For thou knowest not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, Or whether both shall be good alike.

7Moreover the light is sweet, And it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

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