Ecclesiastes 7:13
Modern Translations
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 Study Bible
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?

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?

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?

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

Good News Translation
Think about what God has done. How can anyone straighten out what God has made crooked?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Consider what God has done! Who can straighten what God has bent?

International Standard Version
Consider the work of God: Who is able to straighten what he has bent?

NET Bible
Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?
Classic Translations
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?

King James 2000 Bible
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

New Heart English Bible
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

World English Bible
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

American King James 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?

A Faithful Version
Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what He has made crooked?

Darby Bible Translation
Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?

English Revised Version
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Webster's Bible Translation
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
(7:15) Beholde the worke of God: for who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Consider the worke of God, how that no man can make the thing straight, whiche he maketh crooked.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Considre the worke of God, how that no man can make the thinge straight, which he maketh croked.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
See the work of God, "" For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

Young's Literal Translation
See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

Smith's Literal Translation
See the work of God: for who shall be able to make straight what he made it crooked?

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Consider the works of God, that no one is able to correct whomever he has despised.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
See the work of God, for who is able to restore him that is disturbed?

Lamsa Bible
Consider the work of God; for who can straighten him who is crooked?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Consider the work of God; for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Behold the works of God: for who shall be able to straighten him whom God has made crooked?
















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