Ecclesiastes 7:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:15

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

Job 12:14

If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.

Isaiah 5:12

whose feasts consist of lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine, but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord or see the work of his hands!

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover, he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will,

Isaiah 14:27

For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Psalm 107:43

Let those who are wise pay attention to these things and consider the steadfast love of the Lord.

Romans 9:19

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

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.”

Isaiah 43:13

Indeed, since that day I am he; there is no one who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can hinder it?

Job 37:14

“Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.

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 have you done?”

Psalm 8:3

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established;

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—

Job 11:10

If he passes through and imprisons and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him?

Job 9:12

He snatches away; who can stop him? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I saw all the work of God, that no one can find out what is happening under the sun. However much they may toil in seeking, they will not find it out; even though those who are wise claim to know, they cannot find it out.

Luke 12:26

If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest?