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Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
Lexham English Bible

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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  1. Ecclesiastes 7:14 Literally “after him”
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Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
Holman Christian Standard Bible

13 Consider the work of God,(A)
for who can straighten out
what He has made crooked?(B)

14 In the day of prosperity be joyful,(C) but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other,(D) so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

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