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Ecclesiastes 7:13
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Consider the work of God,for who can straighten outwhat he has made crooked?
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?
Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent?
Look at what God has done: No one can straighten what he has bent.
Consider the work of God: Who can make straight what He has bent?
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
Beholde the worke of God: for who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?
See the work of God,For who is able to straighten what He has bent?
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?
Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?
Look at what God has made. You cannot change a thing, even if you think it is wrong.
Consider the work of God; for who can straighten him who is crooked?
Think about what God has done. How can anyone straighten out what God has made crooked?
Consider the work of God. For who is able to make straight what he made crooked?
Look at the work of God; for who can make that straight which He has bent?
Considre the worke of God, how that no man can make the thinge straight, which he maketh croked.
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
Consider the work of God; for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked?
Consider the worke of God: for who can make that straight, which hee hath made crooked?
Consider the worke of God, how that no man can make the thing straight, whiche he maketh crooked.
For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver: and the excellence of the knowledge of wisdom will give life to him that has it.
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Biholde thou the werkis of God, that no man may amende hym, whom God hath dispisid.
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?
Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?
Consider the work of God; For who can make straight what He has made crooked?
Accept the way God does things, for who can straighten what he has made crooked?
Think of the work of God, for who is able to make straight what He has not made straight?
Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?
Consider the work of God, - for who can straighten what he hath bent?
(7-14) Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.
Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?
See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
Take a good look at God's work. Who could simplify and reduce Creation's curves and angles To a plain straight line?
Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Consider: Job 37:14, Psalms 8:3, Psalms 107:43, Isaiah 5:12
who: Ecclesiastes 1:15, Job 9:12, Job 11:10, Job 12:14, Job 34:29, Isaiah 14:27, Isaiah 43:13, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11, Daniel 4:35, Romans 9:15, Romans 9:19, Ephesians 1:11
Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 8:6 - to every Ecclesiastes 9:11 - but Isaiah 42:16 - crooked Isaiah 45:7 - I make Peace Luke 12:26 - why
Cross-References
After Noah was five hundred years old, he had three sons and named them Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
He had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
But I solemnly promise that you, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law will be kept safe in the boat.
The Lord told Noah: Take your whole family with you into the boat, because you are the only one on this earth who pleases me.
Take seven pairs of every kind of animal that can be used for sacrifice and one pair of all others.
Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for forty days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.
Finally, the mighty flood was so deep that even the highest mountain peaks were almost twenty-five feet below the surface of the water.
Ham's descendants had their own languages, tribes, and land. They were Ethiopia, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. Cush was the ancestor of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah was the ancestor of Sheba and Dedan. Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, a mighty warrior whose strength came from the Lord . Nimrod is the reason for the saying, "You hunt like Nimrod with the strength of the Lord !" Nimrod first ruled in Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all of which were in Babylonia. From there Nimrod went to Assyria and built the great city of Nineveh. He also built Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, as well as Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah. Egypt was the ancestor of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, the ancestor of the Philistines. Canaan's sons were Sidon and Heth. He was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanites spread from the territory of Sidon and went as far as Gaza in the direction of Gerar. They also went as far as Lasha in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim.
Shem's descendants had their own languages, tribes, and land. He was the older brother of Japheth and the ancestor of the tribes of Eber. Shem was the ancestor of Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. Aram was the ancestor of Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. Arpachshad was the father of Shelah and the grandfather of Eber, whose first son was named Peleg, because it was during his time that tribes divided up the earth. Eber's second son was Joktan. Joktan was the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. Their land reached from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the hill country in the east.
Because Noah had faith, he was warned about something that had not yet happened. He obeyed and built a boat that saved him and his family. In this way the people of the world were judged, and Noah was given the blessings that come to everyone who pleases God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Consider the work of God,.... This is dressed to those who thought the former days better than the present, and were ready to quarrel with the providence of God, Ecclesiastes 7:10; and are therefore advised to consider the work of God; not the work of creation, but of providence; which is the effect of divine sovereignty, and is conducted and directed according to the counsel of his will, and is always wisely done to answer the best ends and purposes: everything is beautiful in its season; contemplate, adore, and admire the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, displayed therein; it is such as cannot be made better, nor otherwise than it is;
for who can make [that] straight which he hath made crooked? or which seems to be so, irregular and disagreeable? No man can mend or make that better he finds fault with and complains of; nor can he alter the course of things, nor stay the hand, nor stop the providence of God: if it is his pleasure that public calamities should be in the world, or in such a part of it, as famine, pestilence, or the sword; or any affliction on families, and particular persons, or poverty and meanness in such and such individuals, there is no hindering it; whatever he has purposed and resolved, his providence effects, and there is no frustrating his designs; it signifies nothing for a creature to murmur and complain; it is best to submit to his will, for no alteration can be made but what he pleases. Some understand this of natural defects in human bodies, with which they are born, or which attend them, as blindness, lameness, c. so the Targum,
"consider the work of God, and his strength, who made the blind, the crooked, and the lame, to be wonders in the world for who can make straight one of them but the Lord of the world, who made him crooked?''
Others, of spiritual defects in such who walk in crooked ways, and are hardened in them; who can correct them, and make them other ways, if God does not give them his grace to convert them, and soften their hard hearts? he hardens whom he will, and who hath resisted his will? Jarchi's paraphrase is,
"who can make straight after death what he has made crooked in life?''
Ecclesiastes 7:10- :. Alshech interprets it of the first man Adam.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The work of God - The scheme of Divine Providence, the course of events which God orders and controls (compare Ecclesiastes 3:11). It comprises both events which are “straight,” i. e., in accordance with our expectation, and events which are “crooked,” i. e., which by their seeming inequality baffle our comprehension.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 13. Consider the work of God — Such is the nature of his providence, that it puts money into the hands of few: but wisdom is within the reach of all. The first is not necessary to happiness; therefore, it is not offered to men; the latter is; and therefore God, in his goodness, offers it to the whole human race. The former can rarely be acquired, for God puts it out of the reach of most men, and you cannot make that straight which he has made crooked; the latter may be easily attained by every person who carefully and seriously seeks it from God.
