Ecclesiastes 7:13

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Eccl 1:15 : 15 [That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
  • Job 12:14 : 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
  • Isa 14:27 : 27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul [it]? and his hand [is] stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
  • Isa 46:10-11 : 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also do it.
  • Rom 9:19 : 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and [among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
  • Rom 9:15 : 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 Yea, before the day [was] I [am] he; and [there is] none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
  • Job 34:29 : 29 When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth [his] face, who then can behold him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man only:
  • Job 37:14 : 14 ¶ Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
  • Ps 8:3 : 3 ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
  • Ps 107:43 : 43 Whoso [is] wise, and will observe these [things], even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 ¶ He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
  • Isa 5:12 : 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
  • Job 9:12 : 12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
  • Job 11:10 : 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

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    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

    15All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

    16Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

  • Eccl 1:13-15
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    13And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

    15[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

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    17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yea further; though a wise [man] think to know [it], yet shall he not be able to find [it].

  • Eccl 3:9-12
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    9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

    10I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

    11¶ He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

    12I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1¶ For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them.

  • Eccl 8:14
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    14¶ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

  • Eccl 7:24-25
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    24That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

    25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness:

  • Eccl 3:14-15
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    14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.

    15That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

  • Job 37:14
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    14¶ Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

  • Job 36:23-24
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    23Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

    24¶ Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

  • Eccl 2:25-26
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    25For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto], more than I?

    26For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 7:29
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    29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

  • Job 23:13
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    6¶ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man [is] great upon him.

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  • Eccl 6:10-12
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    10Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

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    10If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

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    8¶ The way of man [is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.

  • Job 9:4
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    3¶ The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

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    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

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    13Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

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    17Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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    17I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work.