Ecclesiastes 1:15
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Context
This verse from Ecclesiastes Chapter 1 connects to 9 cross-references. Qohelet the Preacher opens with the declaration 'Vanity of vanities! All is vanity' and surveys the relentless cycles of nature — sun rising and setting, rivers running to the sea — as evidence that there is nothing new under the …
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That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
A crooked thing <FI>one<Fi> is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.
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