Ecclesiastes 1:15
English Standard Version
15 (A)What is crooked cannot be made straight,
and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Ecclesiastes 7:12-13
English Standard Version
12 For the protection of wisdom is like (A)the protection of money,
and the advantage of knowledge is that (B)wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
13 Consider (C)the work of God:
(D)who can make straight what he has made crooked?
Isaiah 40:4
English Standard Version
4 (A)Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
Ecclesiastes 3:14
English Standard Version
14 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; (A)nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.
Read full chapter
Matthew 6:27
English Standard Version
27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his (A)span of life?[a]
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Matthew 6:27 Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
Lamentations 3:37
English Standard Version
37 (A)Who has spoken and it came to pass,
unless the Lord has commanded it?
Job 34:29
English Standard Version
29 When he is quiet, who can condemn?
When he hides his face, who can behold him,
whether it be a nation or a man?—
Job 11:6
English Standard Version
6 and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom!
For he is manifold in (A)understanding.[a]
Know then that God (B)exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
Footnotes
- Job 11:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Daniel 4:35
English Standard Version
35 (A)all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and (B)he does according to his will among the host of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth;
(C)and none can stay his hand
or (D)say to him, “What have you done?”
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
Bible Gateway Recommends
