Ecclesiastes 1:15

Modern English Version

What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be counted.

Cross References

Job 11:6

and that He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For they would double your prudence. And know that God overlooks some of your iniquity.

Job 34:29

When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him, whether it is done against a nation or against a man only?

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I have perceived that everything that God has done will be lasting. And to this there is nothing to be added, and from it there is nothing to be taken away. God has done this so that in His presence people fear Him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

And I turned my heart to know and seek and search out wisdom in the scheme of things and to know the wickedness of folly, and that foolishness is madness.

Isaiah 40:4

Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough ground become a plain, and the rough places a plain;

Jeremiah 13:23

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

Lamentations 3:37

Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?

Daniel 4:35

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. And no one can stay His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?”

Matthew 6:27

Who among you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?