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Ecclesiastes 7:13
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Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
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Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?
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Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
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Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
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Ecclesiastes 7
11 Wisdom, like an inheritance, is good, and it benefits those who see the sun.
12 For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
13 Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
14 In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
15 In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
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