Job 42:2
I know that thou can do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be restrained.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
In Context
1Then Job answered LORD, and said,
Cross References
Genesis 18:14Is anything too hard for LORD? At the set time I will return to thee, when the season comes round, and Sarah shall have a son.
Psalms 44:21will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalms 139:2Thou know my sitting down and my rising up. Thou understand my thought afar off.
Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that, whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God has done it that men should fear before him.
Isaiah 43:13Yea, since the day was I am he, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?
Jeremiah 17:10I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Matthew Henry on Job 42:2-7
Job's Humble Confession. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered the Lord , and said, 2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and… Read the whole commentary →