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Ecclesiastes 7:13

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11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life 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

    That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

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  • Job 12:14

    Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

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  • Psalms 107:43

    Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

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  • Isaiah 14:27

    For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

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  • Ecclesiastes 3:11

    He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

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  • Isaiah 5:12

    And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

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  • Romans 9:15

    For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

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  • Ephesians 1:11

    In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

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