so that he might reveal to you the secrets of wisdom, and how intricate his law is, and that you would understand how much less he requires of you than your iniquity deserves.
Ecclesiastes 1:15 - Catholic Public Domain Version The perverse are unwilling to be corrected, and the number of the foolish is boundless. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted. American Standard Version (1901) That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. Common English Bible What’s crooked can’t be straightened; what isn’t there can’t be counted. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite. English Standard Version 2016 What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted. |
so that he might reveal to you the secrets of wisdom, and how intricate his law is, and that you would understand how much less he requires of you than your iniquity deserves.
For, when he grants peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hides his face, who is there that can contemplate him, either among the nations, or among all men?
I have learned that all the works which God has made continue on, in perpetuity. We are not able to add anything, nor to take anything away, from those things which God has made in order that he may be feared.
Every valley will be exalted, and every mountain and hill will be brought low. And the crooked will be straightened, and the uneven will become level ways.
If the Ethiopian is able to change his skin, or the leopard is able to change his spots, then you also may be able to do well, though you have learned evil.