Ecclesiastes 1:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.

American Standard Version (1901)

That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Common English Bible

What’s crooked can’t be straightened; what isn’t there can’t be counted.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The perverse are unwilling to be corrected, and the number of the foolish is boundless.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

Ecclesiastes 1:15 Cross References

Job 11:6

He would show you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your iniquity.

Job 34:29

But when God is silent, who can declare him guilty? When he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he watches over both individuals and nations,

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that everything God does will last for ever; there is no adding to it or taking from it.  God works so that people will be in awe of him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom  and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be levelled; the uneven ground will become smooth and the rough places, a plain.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? If so, you might be able to do what is good, you who are instructed in evil.

Lamentations 3:37

Who is there who speaks and it happens, unless the Lord has ordained it?

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and he does what he wants  with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can block his hand or say to him, ‘What have you done? ’

Matthew 6:27

Can any of you add one moment to his lifespan   by worrying?