Ecclesiastes 1:15 meaning and explanation
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Ecclesiastes 1:15, Berean Standard Bible
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The Teacher, who has presented himself as a Davidic king in Jerusalem, is testing everything done under heaven by wisdom, and verse 15 states his finding so far. The line is a proverb about limits: a bent thing cannot be made straight by human effort, and what is missing cannot be counted into existence.
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