Ecclesiastes 1:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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

and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness which is madness.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Lamentations 3:37

Who has commanded and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

Daniel 4:35

all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing; and he does according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What doest thou?”

Matthew 6:27

And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life?