Ecclesiastes 7:13 Cross References - Thomson

¹³ Contemplate the works of God; for who can make him straight whom God hath made crooked.

¹² If he dismiss who shall bring back? Or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?

¹⁰ Now were he to overturn all these, who could say to him what hast thou done?

¹⁴ If he demolish who can rebuild? If he shut against men, who can open?

²⁹ But when he giveth rest, who shall call him to account? When he hideth his face, who can see him? Both against a nation, and against a man at the same time,

¹⁴ Hearken, Job, to these things and stand instructed with regard to the power of the Lord.

³ When I behold the heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and stars which thou hast established,

⁴³ Whosoever is wise and will observe these things, he will understand the mercies of the Lord.

¹⁵ That which is crooked cannot be made straight, nor can wants be numbered.

¹¹ All the things which he made, considered as a whole, are good in his time. But with regard to all things considered as one whole, to them he hath assigned the whole age; so that no man can find out the work which God hath done from beginning to end.

¹² For with kithara and psaltery, tabors and pipes, they drink wine; but they regard not the works of the Lord, nor consider the operations of his hands.

²⁷ For who can disannul what the holy God hath decreed? and his hand which is lifted high, who can turn aside?

¹³ from the beginning; and there is none who can rescue out of my hands. I will act; and who can prevent it;

¹⁰ who can declare events before they happen, as if they were already accomplished. When I have spoken, all my counsel shall stand; and all that I have determined, I will effect. ¹¹ Calling from the east a winged fowl, even from a far distant land, for purposes which I have resolved on, I have spoken and brought, I have created and made, I have brought it and made its way prosperous.

³⁵ and all the inhabitants of the earth are reckoned as nothing; and he doth according to his pleasure in the army of heaven and in the habitations of the earth; and there is none who can stay his hand, or say to him, What hast thou done.

¹⁵ For to Moses he saith, "I will have mercy on whomsoever I please to have mercy'? and I will have compassion on whomsoever I please to compassionate.

¹⁹ wilt thou then say to me, Why doth he yet find fault, for who hath resisted his will?

¹¹ by whom we, [having been previously marked out in a determinate manner, according to the purpose of him who effecteth all things according to the counsel of his will] were made his inheritance,