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That which is crooked, cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbred.
- 1611 King James Bible
Ecclesiastes 1:15 side note reference: Cha.7.13. , Heb. defect.
Other Translations of Ecclesiastes 1:15
[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- King James Version (Pure Cambridge 'Authorized Version')
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- American Standard Version (1901)
That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.
- Basic English Bible
That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.
- Darby Bible
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- Webster's Bible
That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.
- World English Bible
A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
- Youngs Literal Bible
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
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View Wesley's Notes for Ecclesiastes 1:15
1:15 Crooked - All our knowledge serves only to discover our miseries, but is utterly insufficient to remove them; it cannot rectify those disorders which are either in our own hearts and lives, or in the men and things of the world. Wanting - In our knowledge. Or, counted out to us from the treasures of human learning. But what is wanting, will still be so. And that which is wanting in our own knowledge, is so much that it cannot be numbered. The more we know, the more we see of our own ignorance.
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