Ecclesiastes 7:13
“Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?”
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
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.
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Cross-References
“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.”
“Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.”
“That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.”
“Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.”
“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”