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


In Context

10 Say not, How is it that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, and profitable to them that see the sun.

12 For wisdom is a defence as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom maketh them that possess it to live.

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

14 In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing of what shall be after him.

15 All this have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his days by 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 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?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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