Does this scripture shed light on the humanity of the unborn child?

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The idea that the bones must exist before the Spirit comes to them is invalidated by John 1:1 and John 1:14. Jesus' eternal and preexistent Spirit predates his bones by a lot more than a few weeks!

In that instance, I would be hard pressed to find a Christian who believes in the deity of Jesus to say he wasn't alive prior to his conception and incarnation. Indeed, as he said to the Pharisees, "Before Abraham was, I am." If Jesus was alive prior to his bones, then it seems to imply the Spirit is the necessary, if not necessary and sufficient condition for life.

The Ecclesiastes text merely speaks of a Spirit joining with the bones- as such there is no information to state which came first, and which defines "life," although the fact that the Valley of Dry Bones vision (Ez. 37) which has bones that have no life, would tend to point to bones being insufficient for life on their own.

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There can be no definitive answer on this. The easiest way is to compare all the different translations and make your own conclusion, for yourself and not for others.

Examples: Ecclesiastes 11:5

NIV - As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

KJV - 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.

GW - Just as you don't know how the breath of life enters the limbs of a child within its mother's womb, you also don't understand how God, who made everything, works.

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