If he passes through, and imprisons, and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him?
Ecclesiastes 7:13 - New Revised Standard Version Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Consider the work of God: who can make straight what He has made crooked? American Standard Version (1901) Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? Common English Bible Consider God’s work! Who can straighten what God has made crooked? Catholic Public Domain Version For as wisdom protects, so also does money protect. But learning and wisdom have this much more: that they grant life to one who possesses them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them. |
If he passes through, and imprisons, and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him?
If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or an individual?—
He snatches away; who can stop him? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
Let those who are wise give heed to these things, and consider the steadfast love of the Lord.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established;
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
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.
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.
For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is no one who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?
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!
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?”
If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, 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.”
You will say to me then, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
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,