Ecclesiastes 7:13
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
Berean Standard Bible
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 comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
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,
Psalms 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
Ecclesiastes 1:15What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
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 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse 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 →