¹² For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense. But the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. ¹³ Consider the work of God. For who can make that straight, which he has made crooked? ¹⁴ In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider. Yea, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

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Ecclesiastes 1:15

That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Job 12:14

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Isaiah 14:27

For LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Job 9:12

Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?

Job 11:10

If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?

Job 34:29

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can behold him? [It is] the same whether to a nation, or to a man,

Job 37:14

Hearken to this, O Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Psalm 8:3

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou have ordained,

Psalm 107:43

He who is wise will give heed to these things, and they will consider the loving kindnesses of LORD.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Isaiah 5:12

And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.

Isaiah 43:13

Yea, since the day was I am he, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?

Isaiah 46:10-11

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure,

Daniel 4:35

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand, or say to him, What are thou doing?

Romans 9:15

For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate.

Romans 9:19

Thou will say to me therefore, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose?

Ephesians 1:11

in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will.