Ecclesiastes 1:15
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 What is crooked cannot be made straight,
and you cannot count what is not there.[a]
Footnotes
- 1:15 You cannot count what is not there: perhaps originally a commercial metaphor alluding to loss or deficit in the accounts ledger.
Ecclesiastes 1:15
New International Version
15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;(A)
what is lacking cannot be counted.
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