Ecclesiastes 1:15 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

No one can straighten what is bent. No one can count what is not there.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

ASV:

That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

BBE:

That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

DBY:

That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

ERV:

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

JPS:

That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

WBS:

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

WEB:

That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

YLT:

A crooked thing one is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

Ecclesiastes 1:15 Cross References

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Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

1:15 [That which is] {k} crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.
(k) Man is not able by all his diligence to cause things to go other than they do: neither can he number the faults that are committed, much less remedy them.

WES:

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.

MHC:

1:12-18 Solomon tried all things, and found them vanity. He found his searches after knowledge weariness, not only to the flesh, but to the mind. The more he saw of the works done under the sun, the more he saw their vanity; and the sight often vexed his spirit. He could neither gain that satisfaction to himself, nor do that good to others, which he expected. Even the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom discovered man's wickedness and misery; so that the more he knew, the more he saw cause to lament and mourn. Let us learn to hate and fear sin, the cause of all this vanity and misery; to value Christ; to seek rest in the knowledge, love, and service of the Saviour.

CONC:

Able Bent Can't Counted Crooked Lacking Numbered Straight Straightened Wanting

Able Bent Counted Crooked Lacking Numbered Straight Straightened Twisted Wanting

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