Ecclesiastes 1:15
New Living Translation
15 What is wrong cannot be made right.
What is missing cannot be recovered.
Ecclesiastes 1:15
New International Version
15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;(A)
what is lacking cannot be counted.
Ecclesiastes 7:12-13
New Living Translation
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?
Ecclesiastes 7:12-13
New International Version
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)
Isaiah 40:4
New Living Translation
4 Fill in the valleys,
and level the mountains and hills.
Straighten the curves,
and smooth out the rough places.
Isaiah 40:4
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 3:14
New Living Translation
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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Ecclesiastes 3:14
New International Version
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)
Matthew 6:27
New Living Translation
27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
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Matthew 6:27
New International Version
Footnotes
- Matthew 6:27 Or single cubit to your height
Lamentations 3:37
New Living Translation
37 Who can command things to happen
without the Lord’s permission?
Lamentations 3:37
New International Version
37 Who can speak and have it happen
if the Lord has not decreed it?(A)
Job 34:29
New Living Translation
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.
Job 34:29
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Job 11:6
New Living Translation
6 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!
Job 11:6
New International Version
Daniel 4:35
New Living Translation
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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