Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
What is written? (ESV)
Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
What does it say?
Consider God’s work! Who can straighten what He has made crooked? Therefore, in good times be joyful and in bad times remember – God had made both, so that man may not know the future.
What is its immediate context?
Throughout the book, the writer is documenting the vanity of life “under the sun.”
How Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 is applied across Bible answers
Are health and wealth of the prosperity gospel a sign of God’s blessing?
A Christian is a Christian in a "good time" or a "bad time" -- either circumstance is possible, and "God's blessing" isn't connected.
The entire book of Ecclesiastes is an exploration into maximizing all that this world can offer and the assessment is that "all is vanity" and the only thing that matters is to "fear God and keep his commandments" (12:13).
