Ecclesiastes 1:15

Good News Translation

You can't straighten out what is crooked; you can't count things that aren't there.

Cross References

Job 11:6

He would tell you there are many sides to wisdom; there are things too deep for human knowledge. God is punishing you less than you deserve.

Job 34:29

If God decided to do nothing at all, no one could criticize him. If he hid his face, we would be helpless.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that everything God does will last forever. You can't add anything to it or take anything away from it. And one thing God does is to make us stand in awe of him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

But I devoted myself to knowledge and study; I was determined to find wisdom and the answers to my questions, and to learn how wicked and foolish stupidity is.

Isaiah 40:4

Fill every valley; level every mountain. The hills will become a plain, and the rough country will be made smooth.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can people change the color of their skin, or a leopard remove its spots? If they could, then you that do nothing but evil could learn to do what is right.

Lamentations 3:37

The will of the Lord alone is always carried out.

Daniel 4:35

He looks on the people of the earth as nothing; angels in heaven and people on earth are under his control. No one can oppose his will or question what he does.

Matthew 6:27

Can any of you live a bit longer by worrying about it?