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Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Regarde l'oeuvre de Dieu: qui pourra redresser ce qu'il a courbé?

KJV

Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    God," and Ecclus. 27:1, "Through poverty many have sinned"---but also corporal, for it is written ( Eccles. 7:13 ): "As wisdom is a defense, so money is a defense," and the Philosopher says (Ethic. iv, 1) that "the waste of property appears to be a sort of ruining of one's self,…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    On Nature and Grace

    sist from sin of his own will. But it is not enough without the help of God. Wherefore it is said in Eccl. 7:13 : “Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight which he hath made crooked?” Migne: “for no one can correct one whom he hath despised.” On the third point:…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    On Nature and Grace

    119:100 119:120 145:9 148:6 Proverbs 1:33 4:18 9:3 10:12 10:12 10:12 10:23 16:1 16:1 16:2 16:6 24:10 Ecclesiastes 7:13 7:13 9:1 9:2 11:3 Isaiah 3:9 3:13 6:1 7:9 7:14 9:6 11 11 11:2 27:9 40:18 53 59:2 64:4 65:14 Jeremiah 9:4 10:7 15:1 15:18 17:5 17:13 18:6 30:12 31:16 31:18 Lament…

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