Parallel Verses
Amplified
Consider the work of God:
Who can make straight what He has bent?
New American Standard Bible
For who is
King James Version
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Holman Bible
for who can straighten out
what He has made crooked?
International Standard Version
Consider the work of God: Who is able to straighten what he has bent?
A Conservative Version
Consider the work of God. For who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
American Standard Version
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Bible in Basic English
Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
Darby Translation
Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?
Julia Smith Translation
See the work of God: for who shall be able to make straight what he made it crooked?
King James 2000
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Consider the work of God. For who is able to make straight what he made crooked?
Modern King James verseion
Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what He has made crooked?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Consider the work of God, how that no man can make the thing straight, which he maketh crooked.
NET Bible
Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?
New Heart English Bible
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
The Emphasized Bible
Consider the work of God, - for who can straighten what he hath bent?
Webster
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
World English Bible
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
Youngs Literal Translation
See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 7:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Humans Must Accept God's Will And Make The Best Of It
12
For wisdom is a protection even as money is a protection,
But the [excellent] advantage of knowledge is that wisdom shields and preserves the lives of its possessors.
Consider the work of God:
Who can make straight what He has bent?
In the day of prosperity be joyful,
But in the day of adversity consider that
God has made the one as well as the other,
So that man will not find out anything that will be after him.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:15
What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.
Job 12:14
“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
Isaiah 14:27
For the Lord of hosts has decided and planned, and who can annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
Job 9:12
“Behold, He snatches away; who can restrain or turn Him back?
Who will say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’
Job 11:10
“If God passes by or arrests,
Or calls an assembly [of judgment], who can restrain Him?
[If He is against a man, who can call Him to account for it?]
Job 34:29
“When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn?
When He hides His face [withdrawing His favor and help], who then can behold Him [and make supplication to Him],
Whether it be a nation or a man by himself?—
Job 37:14
“Listen to this, Job;
Stand still and consider the wonders of God.
Psalm 8:3
When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have established,
Psalm 107:43
Who is wise? Let him observe and heed these things;
And [thoughtfully] consider the lovingkindness of the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.
Isaiah 5:12
They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts;
But they do not regard nor even pay attention to the deeds of the Lord,
Nor do they consider the work of His hands.
Isaiah 43:13
“Even from eternity I am He,
And there is no one who can rescue from My hand;
I act, and who can revoke or reverse it?”
Isaiah 46:10-11
Declaring the end and the result from the beginning,
And from ancient times the things which have not [yet] been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will do all that pleases Me and fulfills My purpose,’
Daniel 4:35
“All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing.
But He does according to His will in the host of heaven
And among the inhabitants of the earth;
And no one can hold back His hand
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’
Romans 9:15
For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”
Romans 9:19
You will say to me then, “Why does He still blame me [for sinning]? For who [including myself] has [ever] resisted His will and purpose?”
Ephesians 1:11
In Him also we have