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Ecclesiastes 11:5
Contemporary English Version

5 No one can explain how a baby breathes before it is born.[a] So how can anyone explain what God does? After all, God created everything.

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  1. 11.5 how … born: Or “what makes the wind blow or how a baby grows inside its mother.”
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Ecclesiastes 11:5
New International Version

5 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
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