Ecclesiastes 11:5

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

Cross-reference

Ecclesiastes 7:24 reinforces this theme: God's work is far off and profound, beyond human discovery.

Ecclesiastes 8:17 echoes the same point: no one can fully comprehend God's work, despite searching.

Job 26:5 Parallel

Job 26:14 concludes that we only hear a whisper of God's works—same limitation of knowledge Ecclesiastes notes.

Job 37:23 Parallel

Job 37:23 declares the Almighty is beyond our reach—directly parallel to the inability to understand God's work.

Job 38:4-41 challenges Job with questions about creation—reinforcing the same incomprehensibility of God's works.

Psalm 40:5 Parallel

Psalm 40:5 declares God's wonders too many to recount — directly parallels the incomprehensibility of God's work.

Psalm 92:5 Parallel

Psalm 92:5 exclaims how profound God's thoughts are — same theme of unsearchable divine wisdom.

Psalm 139:15 reveals that while we don't know the process, nothing is hidden from God—a divine perspective on the same mystery.

Isaiah 40:28 says God's understanding is unfathomable — a direct parallel to not comprehending God's work.

John 3:8 Allusion

John 3:8 echoes the same mystery: you don't know where the wind comes from, just as here you don't know the spirit's work in the womb.

Romans 11:33 calls God's judgments unsearchable and paths untraceable — strongly echoes the same mystery.

Mark 4:27 Parallel

Mark 4:27 describes seed growing without the farmer knowing how — mirrors not knowing the path of wind or body formation.

Job 39:1 Parallel

Job 39:1 asks who watches the mountain goats giving birth — the same theme of God's hidden workings in nature that Ecclesiastes uses to illustrate human ignorance.

Psalm 139:14 celebrates being 'fearfully and wonderfully made'—a response of praise to the same creative mystery, rather than resignation.

Job 5:9 Parallel

Job 5:9 generalizes the same idea: God's wonders are unfathomable—here illustrated by wind and gestation.