Ecclesiastes 7:13 {14}
Good News Translation
Think about what God has done. How can anyone straighten out what God has made crooked?

New Revised Standard Version
Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?

Contemporary English Version
Think of what God has done! If God makes something crooked, can you make it straight?

New American Bible
Consider the work of God. Who can make straight what God has made crooked?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.

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Job 37:14 Hearken to these things, Job: Stand, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Psalm 8:3 For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

Psalm 107:43 Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the mercies of the Lord?

Isaiah 5:12 The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

who

Ecclesiastes 1:15 The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

Job 9:12 If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?

Job 11:10 If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?

Job 12:14 If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.

Job 34:29 For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?

Isaiah 14:27 For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?

Isaiah 43:13 And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away?

Isaiah 46:10,11 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: . . .

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Romans 9:15,19 For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy. . . .

Ephesians 1:11 In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

Context
The Value of Wisdom
12For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them. 13Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.14In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:15
The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 8:17
And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.

Ecclesiastes 7:12
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