Ecclesiastes 7:13

New English Translation

Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

Cross References

Job 11:10

If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

Job 12:14

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

Job 34:29

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

Job 37:14

“Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still and consider the wonders God works.

Job 9:12

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Psalm 107:43

Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things! Let them consider the Lord’s acts of loyal love!

Psalm 8:3

When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

Ecclesiastes 1:15

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

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I discerned all that God has done: No one really comprehends what happens on earth. Despite all human efforts to discover it, no one can ever grasp it. Even if a wise person claimed that he understood, he would not really comprehend it.

Isaiah 14:27

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?

Isaiah 43:13

From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”

Isaiah 5:12

They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the Lord is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

Luke 12:26

So if you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about the rest?

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 say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will