Ecclesiastes 7:13

New American Bible - revised edition

Consider the work of God. Who can make straight what God has made crooked?

Cross References

Job 11:10

If he should seize and imprison or call to judgment, who then could turn him back?

Job 12:14

If he knocks a thing down, there is no rebuilding; if he imprisons, there is no release.

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?

Job 37:14

Listen to this, Job! Stand and consider the marvels of God!

Job 9:12

Should he seize me forcibly, who can resist? Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Psalm 107:43

Whoever is wise will take note of these things, and ponder the merciful deeds of the Lord.

Psalm 8:3

with the mouths of babes and infants. You have established a bulwark against your foes, to silence enemy and avenger.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

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

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

and I saw all the work of God: No mortal can find out the work that is done under the sun. However much mortals may toil in searching, no one finds it out; and even if the wise claim to know, they are unable to find it out.

Isaiah 14:27

The Lord of hosts has planned; who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out; who can turn it back? Philistia.

Isaiah 43:13

yes, from eternity I am he; There is none who can deliver from my hand: I act and who can cancel it?

Isaiah 5:12

Banqueting on wine with harp and lyre, timbrel and flute, But the deed of the Lord they do not regard, the work of his hands they do not see!

Luke 12:26

If even the smallest things are beyond your control, why are you anxious about the rest?

Romans 9:15

For he says to Moses: “I will show mercy to whom I will, I will take pity on whom I will.”

Romans 9:19

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

Ephesians 1:11

In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will,