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13 Consider the work of God;
    who can make straight what he has made crooked?(A)

14 In the day of prosperity, be joyful, and in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that comes after them.(B)

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Humans Must Accept God’s Will and Make the Best of It

13 Consider the work of God.
    For who is able to make straight what he made crooked?
14 In the day of prosperity, rejoice!
    But in the day of adversity, consider!
For God made one in place of another
    so that mortals cannot find out what will happen in the future.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:14 Literally “after him”