Ecclesiastes 7:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Consider the work of God Not of creation, but of providence; his wise, and just, and powerful government of all events, which is proposed as the last and best remedy against all murmurings. For who can make that straight, &c. No man can correct or alter any of God's works; and therefore all frettings at the injuries of men, or calamities of the times, are not only sinful, but also vain and fruitless. This implies that there is a hand of God in all men's actions, either effecting them, if they be good, or permitting them, if they be bad, and ordering and overruling them, whether they be good or bad.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

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