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Ecclesiastes 7:13

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Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?

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“If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?

What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released.

But if he remains silent, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he is over individual and nation alike,

“Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders.

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

Let the one who is wise heed these things and ponder the loving deeds of the Lord.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.

For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?

Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of his hands.

All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: “What have you done?”

Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”

In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,




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