15 What is (A)crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

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15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;(A)
    what is lacking cannot be counted.

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17 And I (A)applied my [a]mind to know wisdom and to (B)know insanity and foolishness; I realized that this also is (C)striving after wind.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 1:17 Lit heart

17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom,(A) and also of madness and folly,(B) but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

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13 the beginning of [a]his talking is foolishness, and the end of [b]it is evil (A)insanity.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 10:13 Lit the words of his mouth
  2. Ecclesiastes 10:13 Lit his mouth

13 At the beginning their words are folly;
    at the end they are wicked madness—

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