Ecclesiastes 1:15

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Ecclesiastes 1:15

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Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Ecclesiastes 1

¹³ And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a miserable task God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!

¹⁴ I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

¹⁵ What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

¹⁶ I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”

¹⁷ So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

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