Ecclesiastes 7:13 KJV — MannaFest

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

KJV

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ASV

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

WEB

Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?

YLT

See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

DBT

Consider the work ofGod; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?

About this book

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Ecclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''

Author: Traditional: Solomon (''son of David, king in Jerusalem''). Critical: a later Qohelet figure writing in Solomonic persona. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer carries the position.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 940 BC. Critical reading: Persian or early Hellenistic period (5th–3rd century BC).

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22 verses on the floor

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Ecclesiastes 1:15
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Psalms 107:43
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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): Consider the work of God. To silence our complaints concerning cross events, let us consider the hand of God in them and not open our mouths against that which is his doing; let us look upon the disposal of our condition and all the circumstances of it as the work of God, and consider it as the product of his eternal counsel, which is fulfilled in every thing that befals us.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Consider as to God's work, that it is impossible to alter His dispensations; for who can, &c. straight . . . crooked--Man cannot amend what God wills to be "wanting" and "adverse" (Ec 1:15;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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