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Ecclesiastes 7:13

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11 Wisdom, like an inheritance, is good, and it benefits those who see the sun.

12 For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.

Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?

14 In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

15 In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.

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BSB
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
KJV
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
WEB
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
ASV
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
DARBY
Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?
BLB
See the work of God, for who is able to make straight what He has made crooked?
ÅB
Se på Guds verk! For hvem kan gjøre rett det som han har gjort kroket?
OTB
Betrakt Guds verk: Hvem kan rette ut det Han har gjort kroket?
B1930
Se på Guds verk! For hvem kan gjøre rett det som han har gjort kroket?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ecclesiastes 1:15

    What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

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  • Job 12:14

    What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

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  • Psalms 107:43

    Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.

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  • Isaiah 14:27

    The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

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  • Ecclesiastes 3:11

    He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

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  • Isaiah 5:12

    At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

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  • Romans 9:15

    For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

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  • Ephesians 1:11

    In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

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