Parallel Verses
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?
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
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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 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
For who is
Phrases
Names
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,