Ecclesiastes 7:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Ecclesiastes 7:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 3:11
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Psalms 107:43
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Isaiah 5:12
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 11-22)

Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the things of this world. Here are some of the praises and the precepts of wisdom. I. The praises of wisdom. Many things are here said in its commendation, to engage us to get and retain wisdom. 1. Wisdom is…

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

(vv. 13)

13. 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; Job 12:14).