Ecclesiastes 7:13
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Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
In other translations
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Ecclesiastes 1:15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- Job 12:14Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Psalm 107:43Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
- Isaiah 5:12And 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.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.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He 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.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.
- Isaiah 14:27For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
- Romans 9:15For 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.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 1:11In 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: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 43:13Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
- Isaiah 46:10-1110 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.10 I 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.’ 11 I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.
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