Ecclesiastes 1:15

The English Standar Version

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 he is manifold in understanding.[2] 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 a man? --

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that 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 the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Lamentations 3:37

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?

Daniel 4:35

all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?"

Matthew 6:27

And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?[7]