Ecclesiastes 1:15

New International Reader's Version

People can’t straighten things that are crooked. They can’t count things that don’t even exist.

Cross References

Job 11:6

I wish he’d show you the secrets of wisdom. After all, true wisdom has two sides. Here’s what I want you to know. God has forgotten some of your sins.

Job 34:29

But if he remains silent, who can judge him? If he turns his face away, who can see him? He rules over individual people and nations alike.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that everything God does will last forever. Nothing can be added to it. And nothing can be taken from it. God does that so people will have respect for him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

So I tried to understand wisdom more completely. I wanted to study it and figure it out. I tried to find out everything I could about it. I tried to understand why it’s foolish to be evil. I wanted to see why choosing foolishness is so unwise.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley will be filled in. Every mountain and hill will be made level. The rough ground will be smoothed out. The rocky places will be made flat.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can people from Ethiopia change their skin? Can leopards change their spots? It’s the same with you. You have always done what is evil. So how can you do what is good?

Lamentations 3:37

Suppose people order something to happen. It won’t happen unless the Lord has planned it.

Daniel 4:35

He considers all the nations on earth to be nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven. He does what he wants with the nations of the earth. No one can hold back his hand. No one can say to him, “What have you done?”

Matthew 6:27

Can you add even one hour to your life by worrying?