Ecclesiastes 7:13
Consider the ma'aseh HaElohim; for who can make straight what Hashem hath made crooked?
Orthodox Jewish 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 11:10When Eloah passes by and arrests and convenes for judgment, 1 who then can constrain Him? 1
Job 34:29When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn? 1 When He hideth His panim, who then can behold Him? 1 Whether it be a nation, or an individual only? 1
Psalms 8:3Out of the mouth of olelim and infants 1 hast Thou established strength 1 because of Thine enemies, 1 that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 1
Ecclesiastes 1:15That which is crooked cannot be made straight; 1 and chesron (that which is lacking) cannot be numbered.
Isaiah 5:12And the kinnor, and the nevel, the tambourine, and flute, 1 and yayin, are in their mishtehim; 1 but they regard not the Po'al Hashem (the work of Hashem ), 1 neither consider the ma'aseh of His hands. 1
Isaiah 43:13Yes, before the yom was, Ani Hu (I am He); 1 and there is none that can deliver out of My Yad; 1 I work, and who shall reverse it? 1
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 →