Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Consider the work of God. For who is able to make straight what he made crooked?
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?
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 offers protection like money offers protection}. But knowledge [has] an advantage--wisdom restores life to its possessor. 13 Consider the work of God. For who is able to make straight what he made crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen {in the future}.
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:15
What is twisted cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Job 12:14
If he tears down, then it will not be rebuilt; if he shuts a man in, then he cannot be freed.
Isaiah 14:27
For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate [it]? And his hand [is] stretched out, and who will turn it back?
Job 9:12
{If} he would snatch away, who could turn him? Who could say to him, 'What are you doing?'
Job 11:10
"If he passes through and imprisons someone {and summons the assembly}, then who can hinder him?
Job 34:29
but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides [his] face, and who can behold him? Yet [he is] over a nation and over a person alike,
Job 37:14
"Hear this, Job; stand [still] and consider carefully God's wondrous works.
Psalm 8:3
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, [the] moon and [the] stars which you set in place--
Psalm 107:43
Whoever [is] wise, then let him observe these [things], and let them consider Yahweh's acts of loyal love.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put {the past} in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end.
Isaiah 5:12
And [there] will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine [at] their feasts, but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands.
Isaiah 43:13
Indeed, from [this] day I [am] the one, and no one can deliver from my hand. I perform, and who can {cancel it}?"
Isaiah 46:10-11
who from [the] beginning declares [the] end, and from before, [things] that have not been done, who says, 'My plan shall stand,' and, 'I will accomplish all my wishes,'
Daniel 4:35
And all the dwellers of the earth are regarded as nothing, and he does {according to} his desire in the host of heaven and [among] the dwellers of earth, and there is not [one] who can hold back his hand, or {ask him}, 'What are you doing?'
Romans 9:15
For to Moses he says, "I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion."
Romans 9:19
Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?
Ephesians 1:11
in whom also we were chosen, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all [things] according to the counsel of his will,