Ecclesiastes 7:13
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?

Young's Literal Translation
See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

King James Bible
Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?

Hebrew
Consider
רְאֵ֖ה (rə·’êh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

the work
מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה (ma·‘ă·śêh)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

of God:
הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

Who
מִ֤י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

can
יוּכַל֙ (yū·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3201: To be able, have power

straighten
לְתַקֵּ֔ן (lə·ṯaq·qên)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8626: To equalize, straighten, to compose

what
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

He has bent?
עִוְּתֽוֹ׃ (‘iw·wə·ṯōw)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5791: To be bent or crooked

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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