Ecclesiastes 7:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?”
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“Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 7:13 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 9:12If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
- Job 11:10If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
- Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Job 34:29But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
- Job 37:14Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.
- Psalms 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
- Psalms 107:43Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
- Ecclesiastes 1:15What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He 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.
- Isaiah 5:12At 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.
- Isaiah 14:27The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
- Isaiah 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
- Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
- Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- Luke 12:26So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?
- Romans 9:15For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- Romans 9:19One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
- Ephesians 1:11In 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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