Ecclesiastes 1:15

New American Bible - revised edition

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and you cannot count what is not there.

Cross References

Job 11:6

And tell you the secrets of wisdom, for good sense has two sides; So you might learn that God overlooks some of your sinfulness.

Job 34:29

If he is silent, who then can condemn? If he hides his face, who then can behold him, whether nation or individual?

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I recognized that whatever God does will endure forever; there is no adding to it, or taking from it. Thus has God done that he may be revered.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my heart toward knowledge; I sought and pursued wisdom and its design, and I recognized that wickedness is foolishness and folly is madness. Critique of Advice on Women.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley shall be lifted up, every mountain and hill made low; The rugged land shall be a plain, the rough country, a broad valley.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Ethiopians change their skin, leopards their spots? As easily would you be able to do good, accustomed to evil as you are.

Lamentations 3:37

Who speaks so that it comes to pass, unless the Lord commands it?

Matthew 6:27

Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?