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Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.(A)

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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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Footnotes

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

16 We can hardly guess at what is on earth,
and what is at hand we find with labor,
but who has traced out what is in the heavens?

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'Wisdom 9:16' not found for the version: New International Version.

12 If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

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12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

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