Other translations
American Standard Version
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Darby Bible Translation
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
God's Word
No one can straighten what is bent. No one can count what is not there.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
International Standard Version
What is crooked cannot be made straight; what is not there cannot be counted.
NET Bible
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be supplied.
New American Standard Bible
What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is lacking cannot be counted.
New International Version
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
New Living Translation
What is wrong cannot be made right. What is missing cannot be recovered.
Webster's Bible Translation
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
The World English Bible
That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.
EasyEnglish Bible
If someone has bent something, you cannot always make it straight again. You cannot count things, if they are not there.
Young‘s Literal Translation
A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
New Life Version
What is not straight cannot be made straight. What is not there cannot be numbered.
The Voice Bible
There is an old saying: Something crooked cannot be made straight, and something missing cannot be counted.
Living Bible
I, the Preacher, was king of Israel, living in Jerusalem. And I applied myself to search for understanding about everything in the universe. I discovered that the lot of man, which God has dealt to him, is not a happy one. It is all foolishness, chasing the wind. What is wrong cannot be righted; it is water over the dam; and there is no use thinking of what might have been.
New Catholic Bible
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Legacy Standard Bible
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Jubilee Bible 2000
That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.
Christian Standard Bible
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
Amplified Bible © 1954
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.
New Century Version
If something is crooked, you can’t make it straight. If something is missing, you can’t say it is there.
The Message
Life’s a corkscrew that can’t be straightened, A minus that won’t add up.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
Whatever is crooked cannot be straightened. Whatever is not there cannot be counted.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Good News Translation®
You can't straighten out what is crooked; you can't count things that aren't there.
Wycliffe Bible
Wayward men be amended of hard (The wayward can only be corrected with great difficulty); and the number of fools is great without end.
Contemporary English Version
If something is crooked, it can't be made straight; if something isn't there, it can't be counted.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Common English Bible © 2011
What’s crooked can’t be straightened; what isn’t there can’t be counted.
Amplified Bible © 2015
What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.
English Standard Version Anglicised
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and you cannot count what is not there.
New American Standard Bible
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
The Expanded Bible
If something is ·crooked [bent], you can’t make it straight. If something is missing, you can’t ·say it is there [L count it; C something is wrong with the world and it cannot be fixed].
Tree of Life Version
What is crooked cannot be made straight. What is missing cannot be counted.
Revised Standard Version
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
New International Reader's Version
People can’t straighten things that are crooked. They can’t count things that don’t even exist.
BRG Bible
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Complete Jewish Bible
What is crooked can’t be straightened; what is not there can’t be counted.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and chesron (that which is lacking) cannot be numbered.
Names of God Bible
No one can straighten what is bent. No one can count what is not there.
Modern English Version
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be counted.
Easy-to-Read Version
If something is crooked, you cannot say it is straight. And if something is missing, you cannot say it is there.
International Children’s Bible
If something is crooked, you can’t make it straight. If something is missing, you can’t say it is there.
Lexham English Bible
What is twisted cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
New International Version - UK
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.