Cross references

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is crooked cannot be straightened,

and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Ecclesiastes 1:15 BSB

Ecclesiastes 1:15 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 7:12–13 (9 votes) and Matthew 6:27 (6 votes). 4 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Job 11 to Matthew 6.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 1:15 point to?

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  1. For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner. Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?

  2. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

  3. I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.

  4. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.

  5. Job 11:63 votes

    and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

  6. Job 34:293 votes

    But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

  7. Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

  8. All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 1:15?

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