OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 1:15

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15

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

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Verse 15. Perverse. Habitual and obstinate sinners. Calmet.—Fools, who follow the broad road. Bible.—Hebrew and Septuagint “the defect cannot be numbered.” We know not to what a height the soul of man might have risen, if he had continued faithful.

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