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Ecclesiastes 1:15
Ecclesiastes 1:15 is verse 15 of Ecclesiastes chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
King James Version
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
World English Bible
That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
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Ecclesiastes 1:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
15 What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
17 So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
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,
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.
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?