SIL Translator’s Notes on Ecclesiastes 3:11

3:11a He has made everything beautiful in its time.

God has set a time for each thing to be beautiful.
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God has set an appropriate time for each thing ⌊to happen⌋ .
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God has chosen a good time for all things to happen. (EEB)

3:11b He has also set eternity in the hearts of men,

He has also caused people to want to live forever.
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He has put a sense of eternity in people’s minds. (God’s Word)
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People know that there is more to life ⌊then what we see⌋ . God gave them this knowledge.

3:11c yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

However, they can never discover all that God has ever done or will ever do.
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But people can never completely understand what God has done in the past or what he will do in the future.

3:11a-c (combined)

God gave us the ability to think about his world, but we can never completely understand everything he does. And yet, he does everything at just the right time. (English Easy-to-Read Version)
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God does everything at an appropriate time. He gave human beings an idea of eternity. Still, we can never fully understand everything God does.
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He causes all things to happen at the right time. He also causes us to think about eternity. But we cannot understand all the things that God did.

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