13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?


In Context

10 Say not you, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

12 For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom gives life to them that have it.

13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

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

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

Ecclesiastes 7:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:13Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:13Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:13Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:13Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:13See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?