Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Consider the work of God,
For who is able to straighten what He has bent?

King James Version

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Holman Bible

Consider the work of God,
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?

Amplified


Consider the work of God:
Who can make straight what He has bent?

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

the work
מעשׂה 
Ma`aseh 
Usage: 234

of God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

יכול יכל 
Yakol 
Usage: 194

תּקן 
Taqan 
Usage: 3

References

Context Readings

Humans Must Accept God's Will And Make The Best Of It

12 For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. 13 Consider the work of God,
For who is able to straighten what He has bent?
14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Job 12:14

If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

Isaiah 14:27

For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Job 9:12

Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?'

Job 11:10

If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--

Job 37:14

"Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.

Psalm 8:3

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Psalm 107:43

Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done 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 the deeds of the LORD, or see the work of his hands.

Isaiah 43:13

Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?"

Isaiah 46:10-11

declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

Daniel 4:35

all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?"

Romans 9:15

For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

Romans 9:19

You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"

Ephesians 1:11

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

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