Ecclesiastes 1:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ What’s crooked can’t be straightened; what isn’t there can’t be counted.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ The perverse are unwilling to be corrected, and the number of the foolish is boundless.

Ecclesiastes 1:15 Cross References

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it; God has done this so that all should stand in awe before him.

Matthew 6:27

And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your span of life?

Lamentations 3:37

Who can command and have it done, if the Lord has not ordained it?

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—

Job 11:6

and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For wisdom is many-sided. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

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 that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Cushites change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good, who are accustomed to do evil.