Ecclesiastes 1:15

In 11 translations

BSB

What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

KJV

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

WEB

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

ASV

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

LSV

A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

YLT

A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

DBY

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

DRC

The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

GNV

That which is crooked, can none make straight: and that which faileth, cannot be nombred.

JPS

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

LXXE

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and deficiency cannot be numbered.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

מְעֻוָּ֖ת לֹא־יוּכַ֣ל לִתְקֹ֑ן וְחֶסְר֖וֹן לֹא־יוּכַ֥ל לְהִמָּנֽוֹת׃

LXX-Br

Διεστραμμένον οὐ δυνήσεται ἐπικοσμηθῆναι, καὶ ὑστέρημα οὐ δυνήσεται ἀριθμηθῆναι.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ecclesiastes 7:12–13For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner. Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
• Matthew 6:27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lamentations 3:37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
• 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,
• 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?’”

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