Ecclesiastes 7:13
Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
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Ecclesiastes 7:13
Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
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Genesis 15:2
And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.
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Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.
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Genesis 34:5
Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.
Psalms 39:2
I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.
Psalms 39:9
I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
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Deuteronomy 32:39
See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.
Job 9:4
He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
Job 9:13
God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.
Job 11:10
If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?
Psalms 71:20
You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
Isaiah 10:7
But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.
Isaiah 43:13
From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?
Isaiah 45:2
I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:
Isaiah 46:10
Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
Isaiah 46:11
Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.
Luke 3:5
Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;
Acts 4:28
To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
Romans 9:15
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.
Romans 9:19
But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
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1 Samuel 2:3
Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.
1 Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.
1 Samuel 2:8
Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.
1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.
1 Samuel 2:10
Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.
Job 5:11
Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;
Job 5:12
Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.
Job 5:14
In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Proverbs 21:31
The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.
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1 Samuel 3:18
Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.
Job 11:6
And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!
Lamentations 3:22
It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
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2 Kings 6:33
While he was still talking to them, the king came down and said, This evil is from the Lord; why am I to go on waiting any longer for the Lord?
Micah 1:12
For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.
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Esther 5:13
But all this is nothing to me while I see Mordecai the Jew seated by the king's doorway.
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Job 8:3
Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?
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Job 21:17
How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?
Job 21:21
For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?
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Job 34:12
Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.
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Job 37:14
Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.
Psalms 8:3
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
Psalms 107:43
Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.
Isaiah 5:12
And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
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Psalms 66:11
You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.
Psalms 102:10
Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
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Psalms 136:25
Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 8:6
For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
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Psalms 39:6
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
Ecclesiastes 6:10
That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.
Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.
Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
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Isaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
Isaiah 59:1
Truly, the Lord's hand has not become short, so that he is unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:
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Isaiah 34:17
And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.
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Psalms 29:11
The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will give his people the blessing of peace.
Psalms 75:7
But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.
Isaiah 45:7
I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Jeremiah 51:20
You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;
Ezekiel 14:15
Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:
Ezekiel 14:16
Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves, and the land would be made waste.
Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 14:18
Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves.
Ezekiel 14:19
Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 14:20
Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep son or daughter safe; only themselves would they keep safe through their righteousness.
Ezekiel 14:21
For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?
Amos 5:6
Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.
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Jeremiah 13:25
This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.
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Jeremiah 18:7
Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
Jeremiah 18:8
If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.
Jeremiah 18:9
And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it;
Jeremiah 18:10
If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.
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2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper.
Psalms 146:9
The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
Ecclesiastes 2:12
And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.
Lamentations 3:38
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
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Job 31:11
For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:
Amos 1:3
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.
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Matthew 6:27
And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller?
Luke 12:26
If, then, you are not able to do even that which is least, why are you troubled about the rest?
Luke 12:29
And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.
1 Peter 5:7
Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.
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Acts 17:26
And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
Romans 11:36
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.
2 Corinthians 5:18
But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;
Hebrews 2:10
Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.
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2 Corinthians 12:7
And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
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