Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? New Living Translation Accept the way God does things, for who can straighten what he has made crooked? English Standard Version Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? Berean Standard Bible Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? King James Bible Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? New King James Version Consider the work of God; For who can make straight what He has made crooked? New American Standard Bible Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent? NASB 1995 Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent? NASB 1977 Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent? Legacy Standard Bible See the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent? Amplified Bible Consider the work of God: Who can make straight what He has bent? Christian Standard Bible Consider the work of God, for who can straighten out what he has made crooked? Holman Christian Standard Bible Consider the work of God, for who can straighten out what He has made crooked? American Standard Version Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? Aramaic Bible in Plain English See the work of God, for who is able to restore him that is disturbed? Brenton Septuagint Translation Behold the works of God: for who shall be able to straighten him whom God has made crooked? Contemporary English Version Think of what God has done! If God makes something crooked, can you make it straight? Douay-Rheims Bible Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised. English Revised Version Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? GOD'S WORD® Translation Consider what God has done! Who can straighten what God has bent? Good News Translation Think about what God has done. How can anyone straighten out what God has made crooked? International Standard Version Consider the work of God: Who is able to straighten what he has bent? JPS Tanakh 1917 Consider the work of God; for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked? Literal Standard Version See the work of God, | For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked? Majority Standard Bible Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? New American Bible Consider the work of God. Who can make straight what God has made crooked? NET Bible Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent? New Revised Standard Version Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked? New Heart English Bible Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked? Webster's Bible Translation 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? Young's Literal Translation See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked? Additional Translations ... Context The Value of Wisdom…12For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner. 13Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? 14In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.… Cross References Ecclesiastes 1:15 What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted. Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 8:17 I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend. Treasury of Scripture Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked? consider Job 37:14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. Psalm 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; Psalm 107:43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD. who Ecclesiastes 1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. Job 9:12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? Job 11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? Jump to Previous Able Bent Consider Crooked Straight Straighten Thought WorkJump to Next Able Bent Consider Crooked Straight Straighten Thought WorkEcclesiastes 7 1. remedies against vanity are, a good name2. mortification 7. patience 11. wisdom 23. The difficulty of wisdom Verse 13. - Consider the work of God. Here is another reason against murmuring and hasty judgment. True wisdom is shown by submission to the inevitable. In all that happens one ought to recognize God's work and God's ordering, and man's impotence. For who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? The things which God hath made crooked are the anomalies, the crosses, the difficulties, which meet us in life. Some would include bodily deformities, which seems to be a piece of unnecessary literalism. Thus the Septuagint, Τίς δυνήσεται κοσμῆσαι ο{ν α}ν ὁ Θεὸς διαστρέψῃ αὐτόν; "Who will be able to straighten him whom God has distorted?" and the Vulgate, Nemo possit corrigere quem ille despexerit, "No one can amend him whom he hath despised." The thought goes back to what was said in Ecclesiastes 1:15, "That which is crooked cannot be made straight;" and in Ecclesiastes 6:10, man "cannot contend with him that is mightier than he." "As for the wondrous works of the Lord," says Ben-Sirs," there may be nothing taken from them, neither may anything be put unto them, neither can the ground of them be found out" (Ecclus. 18:6). We cannot arrange events according to our wishes or expectations; therefore not only is placid acquiescence a necessary duty, but the wise man will endeavor to accommodate himself to existing circumstances Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Considerרְאֵ֖ה (rə·’êh) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 7200: To see the work מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה (ma·‘ă·śêh) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property of God: הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative Who מִ֤י (mî) Interrogative Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix can יוּכַל֙ (yū·ḵal) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3201: To be able, have power straighten לְתַקֵּ֔ן (lə·ṯaq·qên) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 8626: To equalize, straighten, to compose what אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that He has bent? עִוְּתֽוֹ׃ (‘iw·wə·ṯōw) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 5791: To be bent or crooked Links Ecclesiastes 7:13 NIVEcclesiastes 7:13 NLT Ecclesiastes 7:13 ESV Ecclesiastes 7:13 NASB Ecclesiastes 7:13 KJV Ecclesiastes 7:13 BibleApps.com Ecclesiastes 7:13 Biblia Paralela Ecclesiastes 7:13 Chinese Bible Ecclesiastes 7:13 French Bible Ecclesiastes 7:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God for who (Ecclesiast. 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