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Youngs Literal Translation
A crooked thing one is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Holman Bible
what is lacking cannot be counted.
International Standard Version
What is crooked cannot be made straight; what is not there cannot be counted.
A Conservative Version
That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
American Standard Version
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Amplified
What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.
Bible in Basic English
That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.
Darby Translation
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Julia Smith Translation
The crooked thing shall not be able to be made straight: and the deficiency shall not be able to be numberd
King James 2000
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.
Lexham Expanded Bible
What is twisted cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Modern King James verseion
What is crooked cannot be made straight; and that lacking cannot be numbered.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The crooked cannot be made straight, and the faults cannot be numbered.
NET Bible
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be supplied.
New Heart English Bible
That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.
The Emphasized Bible
That which is crooked, cannot be straight, - and, that which is wanting, cannot be reckoned.
Webster
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
World English Bible
That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 1:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Qohelet Introduces His Quest
14 I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit! 15 A crooked thing one is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered. 16 I -- I spake with my heart, saying, 'I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:14
I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.
Ecclesiastes 7:12-13
For wisdom is a defense, money is a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is, She reviveth her possessors.
Job 11:6
And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, Some of thine iniquity.
Job 34:29
And 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.
Isaiah 40:4
Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.
Lamentations 3:37
Who is this -- he hath said, and it is, And the Lord hath not commanded it?
Daniel 4:35
and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done?
Matthew 6:27
'And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?