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


In Context

10 Say not thou, 'What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun.

12 For wisdom is a defense, money is a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is, She reviveth her possessors.

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

14 In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

15 The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging himself in his wrong.

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 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?