Ecclesiastes 7:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

The work of God - The scheme of Divine Providence, the course of events which God orders and controls (compare Ecclesiastes 3:11). It comprises both events which are “straight,” i. e., in accordance with our expectation, and events which are “crooked,” i. e., which by their seeming inequality baffle our comprehension.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

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