Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
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Gill's Exposition
Consider the work of God,.... This is dressed to those who thought the former days better than the present, and were ready to quarrel with the providence of God, Ecc 7:10; and are therefore advised to…
Barnes' Notes
The work of God - The scheme of Divine Providence, the course of events which God orders and controls (compare Ecc 3:11). It comprises both events which are “straight,” i. e., in accordance with our…
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…
Cambridge Bible
who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked The sequence of thought is as follows. To "consider the work of God" intelligently is one application of the wisdom which has been praised in Ecc…
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