Ecclesiastes 1:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Ecclesiastes 1:15 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 7:12-13
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. …
Isaiah 40:4
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
Ecclesiastes 3:14
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Matthew 6:27
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Lamentations 3:37
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-18)

Solomon, having asserted in general that all is vanity, and having given some general proofs of it, now takes the most effectual method to evince the truth of it, 1. By his own experience; he tried them all, and found them vanity. 2. By an induction of particulars; and here he begins with that which bids fairest of all to be the happiness of a reasonable creature, and that is knowledge and learnin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. Investigation (Ec 1:13) into human ways is vain labor, for they are hopelessly “crooked” and “cannot be made straight” by it (Ec 7:13). God, the chief good, alone can do this (Is 40:4; 45:2). wanting--(Da 5:27). numbered--so as to make a complete number; so equivalent to “supplied” [Maurer]. Or, rather, man’s state is utterly wanting; and that which is wholly defective cannot be numbered or ca…