Ecclesiastes 7:13
Consider the work of God. For who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
In Context
Cross References
Job 11:10If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?
Job 34:29When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can behold him? [It is] the same whether to a nation, or to a man,
Psalms 8:3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou have ordained,
Ecclesiastes 1:15That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Isaiah 5:12And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.
Isaiah 43:13Yea, since the day was I am he, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:12-23
The Advantages of Wisdom. 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. 13 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.… Read the whole commentary →