Ecclesiastes 7:13

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Consider the work of God: who can make straight what He has made crooked?

Cross References

Job 11:10

If [God] sweeps in and arrests and calls into judgment, who can hinder Him? [If He is against a man, who shall call Him to account for it?]

Job 12:14

Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be built again; He shuts a man in, and none can open.

Job 34:29

When He gives quietness (peace and security from oppression), who then can condemn? When He hides His face [withdrawing His favor and help], who then can behold Him [and make Him gracious], whether it be a nation or a man by himself?–

Job 37:14

Hear this, O Job; stand still and consider the wondrous works of God.

Job 9:12

Behold, He snatches away; who can hinder or turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?

Psalm 107:43

Whoso is wise [if there be any truly wise] will observe and heed these things; and they will diligently consider the mercy and loving-kindness of the Lord.

Psalm 8:3

When I view and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained and established,

Ecclesiastes 1:15

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

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

Then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun–because however much a man may toil in seeking, yet he will not find it out; yes, more than that, though a wise man thinks and claims he knows, yet will he not be able to find it out. [Deut. 29:29; Rom. 11:33.]

Isaiah 14:27

For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who can annul it? And His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?

Isaiah 43:13

Yes, from the time of the first existence of day and from this day forth I am He; and there is no one who can deliver out of My hand. I will work, and who can hinder or reverse it?

Isaiah 5:12

They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, neither do they consider the operation of His hands [in mercy and in judgment].

Daniel 4:35

And 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 are You doing?

Luke 12:26

If then you are not able to do such a little thing as that, why are you anxious and troubled with cares about the rest?

Romans 9:15

For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion (pity) on whom I will have compassion. [Exod. 33:19.]

Romans 9:19

You will say to me, Why then does He still find fault and blame us [for sinning]? For who can resist and withstand His will?

Ephesians 1:11

In Him we also were made [God's] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will,