Ecclesiastes 7:13
“Consider the worke of God: for who can make that straight, which hee hath made crooked?”
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Ecclesiastes 7:13 Context
11¶ Wisedome is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profite to them that see the sunne. 12For wisedome is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellencie of knowledge is, that wisedome giueth life to them that haue it. 13Consider the worke of God: for who can make that straight, which hee hath made crooked? 14In the day of prosperitie be ioyfull, but in the day of aduersitie consider: God also hath set the one ouer against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. 15All things haue I seene in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his righteousnes, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickednes.
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Other Translations for Ecclesiastes 7:13
Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?
- King James Version
Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
- American Standard Version (1901)
Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
- Basic English Bible
Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?
- Darby Bible
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
- Webster's Bible
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
- World English Bible
See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
- Youngs Literal Bible
Consider the work of God; for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Ecclesiastes 7:13
7:13 Consider - His wise, and just, and powerful government of all events, which is proposed as the last and best remedy against all murmurings. For who - No man can correct or alter any of God's works; and therefore all frettings at the injuries of men, or calamities of times, are not only sinful, but also vain and fruitless. This implies that there is an hand of God in all mens actions, either effecting them, if they be good, or permitting them, if they be bad, and ordering and over - ruling them, whether they he good or bad.