Ecclesiastes 7:13 “Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?”

Ecclesiastes 7:13

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Wisedome is good with an inheritance, and excellent to them that see the sunne.

Darby Translation

Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?

Young's Literal Translation

See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

Bible in Basic English

Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?

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Cross references

“Consider”

Psalm 107:43 Isaiah 5:12 Job 37:14 Psalm 8:3

Psalm 107:43 · BSB

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

Isaiah 5:12 · BSB

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.

Job 37:14 · BSB

Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.

Psalm 8:3 · BSB

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

“who”

Ecclesiastes 1:15 Job 12:14 Isaiah 14:27 Romans 9:15 Ephesians 1:11 Isaiah 43:13

Ecclesiastes 1:15 · BSB

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

Job 12:14 · BSB

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

Isaiah 14:27 · BSB

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

Romans 9:15 · BSB

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

Ephesians 1:11 · BSB

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,

Isaiah 43:13 · BSB

Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

Also

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Ecclesiastes 3:11 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

14In 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.

Read Ecclesiastes 7