Ecclesiastes 7:13

Think about what God does. If he makes something bent, you can't straighten it!

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In The King James Version

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

In Context

12For wisdom provides security, as does money, but the advantage for those who have wisdom is that they are kept safe and sound!

14On a good day, be happy. When a bad day comes, stop and think. God made each day, so you don't know what will happen to you next.

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Cross References

Job 11:10If God comes and imprisons someone, or assembles the court for judgment, who can stop him?

Job 34:29Yet if God wants to remain silent, who can condemn him? If he chooses to hide his face, who can see him? Whether it concerns a nation or an individual,

Psalms 8:3When I contemplate the heavens that your hands made, the moon and stars that you placed there,

Ecclesiastes 1:15You can't straighten what is twisted, and you can't count what isn't there.

Isaiah 5:12At their feasts you have lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine, but you don't ever consider what the Lord is doing, and you don't recognize his help.

Isaiah 43:13I am God from the beginning. No one can snatch anybody from my hand. No one can reverse what I do.

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 →

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