Ecclesiastes 1:15
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Young's Literal Translation
A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

King James Bible
[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Hebrew
What is crooked
מְעֻוָּ֖ת (mə·‘uw·wāṯ)
Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5791: To be bent or crooked

cannot
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

be straightened,
לִתְקֹ֑ן (liṯ·qōn)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8626: To equalize, straighten, to compose

and what is lacking
וְחֶסְר֖וֹן (wə·ḥes·rō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2642: A thing lacking, deficiency

cannot
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

be counted.
לְהִמָּנֽוֹת׃ (lə·him·mā·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 4487: To weigh out, to allot, constitute officially, to enumerate, enroll

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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