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15 What is wrong cannot be made right.
    What is missing cannot be recovered.

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15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;(A)
    what is lacking cannot be counted.

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12 Wisdom and money can get you almost anything,
    but only wisdom can save your life.

13 Accept the way God does things,
    for who can straighten what he has made crooked?

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12 Wisdom is a shelter
    as money is a shelter,
but the advantage of knowledge is this:
    Wisdom preserves those who have it.

13 Consider what God has done:(A)

Who can straighten
    what he has made crooked?(B)

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Fill in the valleys,
    and level the mountains and hills.
Straighten the curves,
    and smooth out the rough places.

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Every valley shall be raised up,(A)
    every mountain and hill(B) made low;
the rough ground shall become level,(C)
    the rugged places a plain.

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14 And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God’s purpose is that people should fear him.

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14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.(A)

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27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?

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27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:27 Or single cubit to your height

37 Who can command things to happen
    without the Lord’s permission?

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37 Who can speak and have it happen
    if the Lord has not decreed it?(A)

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29 But if he chooses to remain quiet,
    who can criticize him?
When he hides his face, no one can find him,
    whether an individual or a nation.

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29 But if he remains silent,(A) who can condemn him?(B)
    If he hides his face,(C) who can see him?
Yet he is over individual and nation alike,(D)

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If only he would tell you the secrets of wisdom,
    for true wisdom is not a simple matter.
Listen! God is doubtless punishing you
    far less than you deserve!

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and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,(A)
    for true wisdom has two sides.
    Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.(B)

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35 All the people of the earth
    are nothing compared to him.
He does as he pleases
    among the angels of heaven
    and among the people of the earth.
No one can stop him or say to him,
    ‘What do you mean by doing these things?’

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35 All the peoples of the earth
    are regarded as nothing.(A)
He does as he pleases(B)
    with the powers of heaven
    and the peoples of the earth.
No one can hold back(C) his hand(D)
    or say to him: “What have you done?”(E)

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