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Ecclesiastes 7:13 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 7 · verse 13
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?Ecclesiastes 7:13 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 7:13 in context
11Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- Considerrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- straighttâqanto equalizeH8626 →
- workmaʻăsehan actionH4639 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the things of this world. Here are some of the praises and the precepts of wisdom. I. The praises of wisdom.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-22