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


In Context

10 Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these?" For it is not wise to ask such questions.

11 Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing and benefits those who see the sun.

12 Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor.

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

14 When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.

15 In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: a righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long 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 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?

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?