Ecclesiastes 1:15

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What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 7:12-13 : 12 For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves the life of its possessor. 13 Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?
  • Isa 40:4 : 4 Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.
  • Eccl 3:14 : 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it nor taken from it. God does this so that people will fear Him.
  • Job 11:6 : 6 and that He would declare to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom is double what you imagine. Know then that God exacts less of you than your guilt deserves.
  • Job 34:29 : 29 When He gives quietness, who can condemn? When He hides His face, who can behold Him? Yet He watches over both nation and man alike.
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 Who can speak and have it come to pass, unless the Lord has decreed it?
  • Matt 6:27 : 27 Who among you, by worrying, can add a single cubit to their lifespan?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:13
    81%

    13 Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?

  • Eccl 1:13-14
    2 verses
    80%

    13 I set my heart to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a burdensome task God has given to the human race to occupy themselves with!

    14 I have seen all the deeds that are done under the sun; they are all meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the work that is done on earth, even though people do not see sleep with their eyes day or night,

    17 then I saw all the work of God, that no one can understand the work that is done under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can comprehend it. Even if the wise claim to know, they cannot truly understand it.

  • Eccl 1:8-11
    4 verses
    77%

    8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

    9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

    10 Is there anything of which one can say, 'Look! This is something new'? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.

    11 No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

  • Eccl 1:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 “Utterly meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”

    3 What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 Yet when I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, behold, everything was meaningless—a chasing after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

    12 So I turned my attention to consider wisdom, madness, and folly. For what can anyone do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.

  • Eccl 6:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9 Better is what the eyes see than the wandering of desire. This too is meaningless and a chasing after the wind.

    10 Whatever exists has already been given its name, and it is known what mankind is; no one can contend with someone who is stronger.

    11 The more words, the more meaningless—and what advantage does that bring to anyone?

  • Eccl 3:14-16
    3 verses
    75%

    14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it nor taken from it. God does this so that people will fear Him.

    15 Whatever has already been, and what will be has already been; and God seeks what has been pursued.

    16 And I saw under the sun, in the place of judgment, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well.

  • Eccl 1:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16 I said to myself, 'Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled Jerusalem before me. I have experienced much wisdom and knowledge.'

    17 Then I set my heart to understand wisdom, as well as madness and folly, but I learned that this too is a chasing after the wind.

    18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.

  • Eccl 12:8
    75%

    8 'Utter futility,' says the Teacher. 'Everything is futile!'

  • Eccl 4:16
    74%

    16 There is no end to all the people who were before them, yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

  • Eccl 7:15
    74%

    15 In my fleeting life, I have seen it all: The righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

  • Eccl 7:23-25
    3 verses
    74%

    23 All this I tested by wisdom and said, 'I will be wise,' but it was beyond me.

    24 What exists is far off and exceedingly deep—who can discover it?

    25 I turned my mind to understand, to investigate, and to search out wisdom and the meaning of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

  • Eccl 6:1
    74%

    1 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is great upon humanity.

  • Eccl 2:19-22
    4 verses
    73%

    19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will rule over all the fruit of my labor that I have worked for under the sun. This too is meaningless.

    20 So I turned my heart to despair over all the hard work with which I had labored under the sun.

    21 For there is a person who labors with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, but then must leave everything to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.

    22 What does a person gain from all their labor and from the striving of their heart under the sun?

  • Job 17:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 But as for all of you, return and come now, for I do not find a wise man among you.

    11 My days have passed, my plans are broken off, and the desires of my heart are gone.

  • Eccl 8:14
    73%

    14 There is a futility that takes place on the earth: righteous people receive what the wicked deserve, and wicked people receive what the righteous deserve. I said, 'This too is vanity.'

  • Eccl 2:17
    73%

    17 So I hated life, because the work done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

  • Eccl 3:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10 I have seen the burden that God has laid on the human race.

    11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

    12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to rejoice and to do good while they live.

  • Eccl 7:27
    73%

    27 'See,' says the Teacher, 'this is what I have discovered, adding one thing to another to understand the scheme of things.'

  • Eccl 9:1
    72%

    1 So I reflected on all this and set my heart to examine it: that the righteous, the wise, and their deeds are in the hand of God. People do not know whether love or hatred awaits them; everything lies before them.

  • Eccl 4:3
    72%

    3 But better than both is the one who has not yet been born, who has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:15
    72%

    15 Then I said in my heart, 'What happens to the fool will also happen to me. So why have I been so very wise?' And I concluded in my heart, 'This too is meaningless.'

  • Eccl 5:16
    72%

    16 Throughout his days, he eats in darkness, with great frustration, sickness, and anger.

  • Eccl 4:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 Again, I turned and saw meaninglessness under the sun.

    8 There was a man all alone. He had no son or brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. 'For whom am I toiling,' he asked, 'and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?' This too is meaningless—a miserable business!

  • Eccl 9:3
    72%

    3 This is the distressing thing about everything that happens under the sun: the same fate befalls all. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil, and madness resides in their hearts during their lives; and after that, they join the dead.

  • Job 14:4
    72%

    4 Who can bring what is pure out of the unclean? No one.

  • Eccl 3:22
    71%

    22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a person to rejoice in their work, for that is their lot. Who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

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