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Ecclesiastes 1:15
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KJ21
That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
ASV
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
AMP
What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.
AMPC
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.
BRG
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
CSB
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
CSBA
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
CEB
What’s crooked can’t be straightened; what isn’t there can’t be counted.
CJB
What is crooked can’t be straightened; what is not there can’t be counted.
CEV
If something is crooked, it can't be made straight; if something isn't there, it can't be counted.
DARBY
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
DRA
The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.
ERV
If something is crooked, you cannot say it is straight. And if something is missing, you cannot say it is there.
EASY
If someone has bent something, you cannot always make it straight again. You cannot count things, if they are not there.
EHV
Whatever is crooked cannot be straightened. Whatever is not there cannot be counted.
ESV
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
ESVUK
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
EXB
If something is ·crooked [bent], you can’t make it straight. If something is missing, you can’t ·say it is there [L count it; C something is wrong with the world and it cannot be fixed].
GNV
That which is crooked, can none make straight: and that which faileth, cannot be numbered.
GW
No one can straighten what is bent. No one can count what is not there.
GNT
You can't straighten out what is crooked; you can't count things that aren't there.
HCSB
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
ICB
If something is crooked, you can’t make it straight. If something is missing, you can’t say it is there.
ISV
What is crooked cannot be made straight; what is not there cannot be counted.
JUB
That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.
KJV
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
AKJV
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
LSB
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
LEB
What is twisted cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
TLB
I, the Preacher, was king of Israel, living in Jerusalem. And I applied myself to search for understanding about everything in the universe. I discovered that the lot of man, which God has dealt to him, is not a happy one. It is all foolishness, chasing the wind. What is wrong cannot be righted; it is water over the dam; and there is no use thinking of what might have been.
MSG
Life’s a corkscrew that can’t be straightened, A minus that won’t add up.
MEV
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be counted.
NOG
No one can straighten what is bent. No one can count what is not there.
NABRE
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and you cannot count what is not there.
NASB
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
NASB1995
What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is lacking cannot be counted.
NCB
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
NCV
If something is crooked, you can’t make it straight. If something is missing, you can’t say it is there.
NET
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be supplied.
NIRV
People can’t straighten things that are crooked. They can’t count things that don’t even exist.
NIV
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
NIVUK
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
NKJV
What is crooked cannot be made straight, And what is lacking cannot be numbered.
NLV
What is not straight cannot be made straight. What is not there cannot be numbered.
NLT
What is wrong cannot be made right. What is missing cannot be recovered.
NRSVA
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
NRSVACE
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
NRSVCE
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
NRSVUE
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
OJB
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and chesron (that which is lacking) cannot be numbered.
RGT
That which is crooked can no one make straight. And that which fails cannot be numbered.
RSV
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
RSVCE
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
TLV
What is crooked cannot be made straight. What is missing cannot be counted.
VOICE
There is an old saying: Something crooked cannot be made straight, and something missing cannot be counted.
WEB
That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
WYC
Wayward men be amended of hard (The wayward can only be corrected with great difficulty); and the number of fools is great without end.
YLT
A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
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