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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
מעות לא יוכל לתקן וחסרון לא יוכל להמנות
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
m`vt lA yvkl ltqn vKHsrvn lA yvkl lhmnvt

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
perversi difficile corriguntur et stultorum infinitus est numerus

King James Variants
American King James Version   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Authorized (King James) Version   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
New King James Version   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, And what is lacking cannot be numbered.
21st Century King James Version   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Darby Bible Translation   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
God's Word   
No one can straighten what is bent. No one can count what is not there.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
International Standard Version   
What is crooked cannot be made straight; what is not there cannot be counted.
NET Bible   
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be supplied.
New American Standard Bible   
What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is lacking cannot be counted.
New International Version   
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
New Living Translation   
What is wrong cannot be made right. What is missing cannot be recovered.
Webster's Bible Translation   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
The World English Bible   
That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.
EasyEnglish Bible   
If someone has bent something, you cannot always make it straight again. You cannot count things, if they are not there.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
New Life Version   
What is not straight cannot be made straight. What is not there cannot be numbered.
The Voice Bible   
There is an old saying: Something crooked cannot be made straight, and something missing cannot be counted.
Living Bible   
I, the Preacher, was king of Israel, living in Jerusalem. And I applied myself to search for understanding about everything in the universe. I discovered that the lot of man, which God has dealt to him, is not a happy one. It is all foolishness, chasing the wind. What is wrong cannot be righted; it is water over the dam; and there is no use thinking of what might have been.
New Catholic Bible   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Legacy Standard Bible   
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.
Christian Standard Bible   
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.
New Century Version   
If something is crooked, you can’t make it straight. If something is missing, you can’t say it is there.
The Message   
Life’s a corkscrew that can’t be straightened, A minus that won’t add up.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Whatever is crooked cannot be straightened. Whatever is not there cannot be counted.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Good News Translation®   
You can't straighten out what is crooked; you can't count things that aren't there.
Wycliffe Bible   
Wayward men be amended of hard (The wayward can only be corrected with great difficulty); and the number of fools is great without end.
Contemporary English Version   
If something is crooked, it can't be made straight; if something isn't there, it can't be counted.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Common English Bible © 2011   
What’s crooked can’t be straightened; what isn’t there can’t be counted.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and you cannot count what is not there.
New American Standard Bible   
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
The Expanded Bible   
If something is ·crooked [bent], you can’t make it straight. If something is missing, you can’t ·say it is there [L count it; C something is wrong with the world and it cannot be fixed].
Tree of Life Version   
What is crooked cannot be made straight. What is missing cannot be counted.
Revised Standard Version   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
New International Reader's Version   
People can’t straighten things that are crooked. They can’t count things that don’t even exist.
BRG Bible   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Complete Jewish Bible   
What is crooked can’t be straightened; what is not there can’t be counted.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and chesron (that which is lacking) cannot be numbered.
Names of God Bible   
No one can straighten what is bent. No one can count what is not there.
Modern English Version   
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be counted.
Easy-to-Read Version   
If something is crooked, you cannot say it is straight. And if something is missing, you cannot say it is there.
International Children’s Bible   
If something is crooked, you can’t make it straight. If something is missing, you can’t say it is there.
Lexham English Bible   
What is twisted cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
New International Version - UK   
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.