Just as you do not (A)know the path of the [a]wind, and (B)how bones are formed in the womb of the [b]pregnant woman, so you do not (C)know the activity of God who makes everything.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or with many mss spirit into the bones in the womb
  2. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Lit full

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

(A)The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”

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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.