Ecclesiastes 3:11

11. Made every thing beautiful Koheleth’s inference as to God’s scheme for man warms into poetic beauty. Every item of it is “beautiful” in its intended place and order. The word rendered world is the only Hebrew word for unmeasured time, that is, eternity. Many various views have been given on this word. Some excellent scholars have thought it should have been a word now found in the Arabic, elem, meaning intelligence, instead of ‘ holam. But the simplest is here the best. God has not only ordered this “ world” well, but has put into man’s heart a sense and apprehension of what is beyond life and time.

So that These words should be, but that. The English has no word conveying the idea of exclusiveness so peculiarly as the Hebrew here used; yet “but that” comes nearest. The idea is, that the harmony of the divine arrangements for man, and his relation to the unmeasured future, would be plain and practicable but that man does not take into account and study the whole plan of God from beginning to… end.