Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? New Living Translation Accept the way God does things, for who can straighten what he has made crooked? English Standard Version Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? Berean Standard Bible Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? King James Bible Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? New King James Version Consider the work of God; For who can make straight what He has made crooked? New American Standard Bible Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent? NASB 1995 Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent? NASB 1977 Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent? Legacy Standard Bible See the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent? Amplified Bible Consider the work of God: Who can make straight what He has bent? Christian Standard Bible Consider the work of God, for who can straighten out what he has made crooked? Holman Christian Standard Bible Consider the work of God, for who can straighten out what He has made crooked? American Standard Version Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? Contemporary English Version Think of what God has done! If God makes something crooked, can you make it straight? English Revised Version Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? GOD'S WORD® Translation Consider what God has done! Who can straighten what God has bent? Good News Translation Think about what God has done. How can anyone straighten out what God has made crooked? International Standard Version Consider the work of God: Who is able to straighten what he has bent? Majority Standard Bible Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? NET Bible Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent? New Heart English Bible Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked? Webster's Bible Translation Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? World English Bible Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked? Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionSee the work of God, "" For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked? Young's Literal Translation See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked? Smith's Literal Translation See the work of God: for who shall be able to make straight what he made it crooked? Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleConsider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible Consider the work of God. Who can make straight what God has made crooked? New Revised Standard Version Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked? Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleConsider the work of God; for who can straighten him who is crooked? Peshitta Holy Bible Translated See the work of God, for who is able to restore him that is disturbed? OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Consider the work of God; for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked? Brenton Septuagint Translation Behold the works of God: for who shall be able to straighten him whom God has made crooked? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Value of Wisdom…12For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner. 13Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? 14In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.… Cross References Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’? Romans 9:20-21 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?” / Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? Job 9:12 If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’ Job 12:14 What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released. Isaiah 14:27 The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back? Lamentations 3:37-38 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it? / Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High? Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster. Isaiah 46:10 I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’ Daniel 4:35 All 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?’” James 4:13-15 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” / You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. / Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.” Romans 11:33-36 O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways! / “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?” / “Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?” ... Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. / “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. Job 42:2 “I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted. Psalm 33:10-11 The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples. / The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations. Proverbs 19:21 Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail. Treasury of Scripture Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked? consider Job 37:14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. Psalm 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; Psalm 107:43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD. who Ecclesiastes 1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. Job 9:12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? Job 11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? Jump to Previous Able Bent Consider Crooked Straight Straighten Thought WorkJump to Next Able Bent Consider Crooked Straight Straighten Thought WorkEcclesiastes 7 1. remedies against vanity are, a good name2. mortification 7. patience 11. wisdom 23. The difficulty of wisdom Consider the work of God The Hebrew word for "consider" is "ra'ah," which means to see, perceive, or understand. This calls the reader to deeply reflect on and observe the actions and creations of God. In a conservative Christian perspective, this is an invitation to acknowledge God's sovereignty and wisdom in all things. The "work of God" refers to His creation and providence, encompassing everything from the natural world to the unfolding of human history. It is a reminder that God's work is purposeful and beyond human comprehension, urging believers to trust in His divine plan. Who can straighten what He has bent? Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Considerרְאֵ֖ה (rə·’êh) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 7200: To see the work מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה (ma·‘ă·śêh) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property of God: הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative Who מִ֤י (mî) Interrogative Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix can יוּכַל֙ (yū·ḵal) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3201: To be able, have power straighten לְתַקֵּ֔ן (lə·ṯaq·qên) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 8626: To equalize, straighten, to compose what אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that He has bent? עִוְּתֽוֹ׃ (‘iw·wə·ṯōw) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 5791: To be bent or crooked Links Ecclesiastes 7:13 NIVEcclesiastes 7:13 NLT Ecclesiastes 7:13 ESV Ecclesiastes 7:13 NASB Ecclesiastes 7:13 KJV Ecclesiastes 7:13 BibleApps.com Ecclesiastes 7:13 Biblia Paralela Ecclesiastes 7:13 Chinese Bible Ecclesiastes 7:13 French Bible Ecclesiastes 7:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God for who (Ecclesiast. 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