What is crooked cannot be made straight,
And what is lacking cannot be numbered.
Ecclesiastes 1:15
The Ecclesiastes is such a gloomy character, at one point he was my most favorite (nothing new under the Sun, and all is chasing for the wind). He believes that things cannot be made straight once they are messed up. What is crooked cannot be made straight. All is doomed and hopeless. Don't even try to fix what you screwed up, since you really cannot straighten it....
When I first read that "what is lacking cannot be numbered" I almost said how stupid can he be, and must have missed all his math classes; since, we for sure can count zero! Zero is a number!
Even if we cannot hold it in hand (since is lacking), but we have it as a number! However I think Ecclesiastes was a bit more materialistic here and talks about the fact that if one does not have something, or is lacking something, then for sure won't be able to count it and put a number to how many items are.
However, just don't think about the what is lacking as being what one has as debt. Indeed lacking 10K can be for sure numbered and the Bank will do it, even if the person has a large banner with the Ecclesiastes' words :-)