Ecclesiastes 1:15

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Cross References

Job 11:6

and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For wisdom is many-sided. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or an individual?—

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Ethiopians change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Lamentations 3:37

Who can command and have it done, if the Lord has not ordained it?

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What are you doing?”

Matthew 6:27

And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?