Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider God's work, for no one can straighten what He has made crooked. It matters because we must humbly accept God's sovereign ordering rather than fight it.

Cross-references · 17

• Eccl 1:15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
• Job 12:14Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
• Ps 107:43Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
• Eccl 3:11He 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.
• Isa 14:27For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
• Isa 5:12And 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.
• Rom 9:15For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
• Eph 1:11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
• Rom 9:19Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
• Isa 46:10–11Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
• Job 37:14Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
• Isa 43:13Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
• Job 9:12Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
• Dan 4:35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
• Job 11:10If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
• Job 34:29When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
• Ps 8:3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

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