Ecclesiastes 1:15 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
English ASV
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
English Amplified
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
English EASY 2024
If someone has bent something, you cannot always make it straight again. You cannot count things, if they are not there.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
If something is crooked, you cannot say it is straight. And if something is missing, you cannot say it is there.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
English GNT (Good News Translation)
You can't straighten out what is crooked; you can't count things that aren't there.
English God's Word - GW 1995
No one can straighten what is bent. No one can count what is not there.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
English KJV 1611
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
English LSB
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be counted.
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is lacking cannot be counted.
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is missing cannot be supplied.
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be supplied.
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
People can't straighten things that are twisted. They can't count things that don't even exist.
English NIV
What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
English NKJ 1982
What is crooked cannot be made straight, And what is lacking cannot be numbered.
English NLT
What is wrong cannot be righted. What is missing cannot be recovered.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
What is wrong cannot be righted; it is water over the dam; and there is no use thinking of what might have been.
English Tyndale 1537
The crooked can not be made straight, and the faults can not be numbered.