Ecclesiastes 1:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.”
Read Ecclesiastes 1:15 in the flow of Ecclesiastes1 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Ecclesiastes1 to see the surrounding context.
“What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.”
King James Version · Public Domain“That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A crooked thing <FI>one<Fi> is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 1:15 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 11:6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
- Job 34:29But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
- Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.
- Ecclesiastes 7:12For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
- Isaiah 40:4Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.
- Jeremiah 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.
- Lamentations 3:37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
- Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- Matthew 6:27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
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