Ecclesiastes 1:15
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
In context
13 And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
15 What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
17 So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:15 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- KJV King James Version
- That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- WEB World English Bible
- That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
- ASV American Standard Version
- That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
- DBY Darby Translation
- That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- WBS Webster Bible
- That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.