Ecclesiastes 7:13
See the work of God, || For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
Literal Standard 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 on, and shuts up, and assembles, || Who then reverses it?
Job 34:29And He gives rest, and who makes wrong? And hides the face, and who beholds it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, || [It is] the same.
Psalms 8:3For I see Your heavens, a work of Your fingers, || [The] moon and stars that You established.
Ecclesiastes 1:15A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
Isaiah 5:12And harp, and stringed instrument, tambourine, and pipe, || And wine, have been their banquets, || And they do not behold the work of YHWH, || Indeed, they have not seen the work of His hands.
Isaiah 43:13Even from the day I [am] He, || And there is no deliverer from My hand, || I work, and who turns it back?
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 →