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


In Context

10 Don't say, |Why were the former days better than these?| For you do not ask wisely about this.

11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

12 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has 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, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

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 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?