Ecclesiastes 7:13

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Job 11:10

“If He passes through, and imprisons, and gathers together for judgment, then who can hinder Him?

Job 12:14

Surely, He tears down, and it cannot be built again; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

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?

Job 37:14

“Listen to this, Job; stand still and consider the wondrous works of God.

Job 9:12

Yes, He takes away; who can hinder Him? Who will say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Psalm 107:43

Whoever is wise will observe these things, and they will consider the lovingkindness of the Lord.

Psalm 8:3

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

Ecclesiastes 1:15

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

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also put obscurity in their hearts so that people do not come to know the work that God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I observed all the work of God, that one cannot understand what is happening under the sun. Though a person may toil in seeking, he will not understand it. Even if a wise man claims to know, he is not able to understand it.

Isaiah 14:27

For the Lord of Hosts has purposed, and who shall disannul it? And His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Isaiah 43:13

Indeed, from eternity I am He; there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I act, and who can reverse it?

Isaiah 5:12

The lyre and the harp, the tambourine and pipe, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or consider the work of His hands.

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?”

Luke 12:26

If you then cannot do what is least, why are you anxious about the other things?

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.”

Romans 9:19

You will then say to me, “Why does He yet find fault? For who can resist His will?”

Ephesians 1:11

In Him also we have received an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,