Ecclesiastes 7:13
See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
Young's Literal Translation
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 pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?
Job 34:29And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, [It is] the same.
Psalms 8:3For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.
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 psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.
Isaiah 43:13Even from the day I [am] He, And there is no deliverer from My hand, I work, and who doth turn 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 →