Ecclesiastes 7:13

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:15

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

Job 12:14

If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

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, or see the work of his hands.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ephesians 1:11

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Isaiah 14:27

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

Psalm 107:43

Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.

Romans 9:19

You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”

Romans 9:15

For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Isaiah 43:13

Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”

Job 37:14

“Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.

Daniel 4:35

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

Psalm 8:3

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

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?—

Job 11:10

If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?

Job 9:12

Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.

Luke 12:26

If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?