Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 11:5

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.

Of the Spirit or Soul of Man, how it first comes into the Body of the child in the Womb, whether from God by Creation, or from the Parents by Propagation; nor how it is united with, and so fixed in the Body that it cannot get out of it when it would; nor how and whether it goes out of the Body; all which things are great mysteries. Others translate it, of the wind, whence it cometh, and whither it goeth, as is observed Iob. 3. 8. or how violently it will blow, or how long it will last. But the former Translation seems to agree better with the following clause.

i. e. The whole Body, which is elsewhere signified by the Bones, as Psal. 34. 20. & 35. 10. because they are a principal part, and the very foundation and support of the Body.

How it comes to pass that one and the same small quantity of seed should diversifie itself into skin, and flesh, and sinews, and veins, and bones, and intrals, or how it receiveth nourishment and growth.

What God is doing and will do with thee or others, the Counsels and Methods of Gods Providence in the future time of thy Life, what evil God will send upon the Earth, v. 2. or what weather he will send, of which v. 4. how long or how little a while God will continue thy Life or Estate, and how soon God will call thee to an account. These and many other future events thou canst not foresee, and therefore thy Wisdom and Duty is to cast off all distracting cares, and distrustful fears about them, and chearfully to commit thy self, and all thy affairs, into the Hand of God in well-doing.

Marginal references: Or, of the wind, Joh. 3. 8.; Ps. 139. 14, 15.