Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 7:13

13 Consider the work of God, for who can make that streight which he hath made crooked .

Not of Creation, but of Providence; his wife, and just, and powerful Government of all Events in the World, which is proposed as the last and best Remedy against all murmurings and sinful disquietments of mind, under the sense of the great and many disorders which happen in the World, as is implied, v. 10. against which Wisdom is prescribed as one Remedy, [illegible: 1+ letters]. 11, 12. and now here is another.

No Man can withstand, or correct, or alter any of Gods works; and therefore all self-tormenting frettings and discontents at the injuries of men, or calamities of times, are not only sinful, but also vain and fruitless. This reason implies that there is an Hand or Work of God in all mens actions, either effecting them, if they be good, or permitting them if they be bad, and ordering and over-ruling them, whether they be good or bad. And God is here said to make things crooked, as he is said to make the hearts of sinners fat or hard, Isa. 6. 10. and elsewhere, not positively, but privatively, because he denies or withdraws from men that Wisdom or Grace which should make them streight.

Marginal references: Ch. 1. 15. See Job 14. 4.; Or, him, so Gr.