Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,
or how bones develop in[a] the womb of a pregnant woman,
so also you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.(A)

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  1. 11:5 Or know how the life-breath comes to the bones in

As you do not know the path of the wind,(A)
    or how the body is formed[a] in a mother’s womb,(B)
so you cannot understand the work of God,
    the Maker of all things.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or know how life (or the spirit) / enters the body being formed

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going.(A) So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”(B)

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The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”[a](A)

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  1. John 3:8 The Greek for Spirit is the same as that for wind.