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 can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
• Job 12:14Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
• Ps 107:43Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
• Eccl 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
• Isa 14:27For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
• Isa 5:12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
• Rom 9:15For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
• Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
• Rom 9:19You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
• Isa 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
• Job 37:14“Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
• Isa 43:13Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”
• Job 9:12Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
• Dan 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
• Job 11:10If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
• Job 34:29When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
• Ps 8:3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

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