Job 42:2
I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
In Context
1And Job said in answer to the Lord,
Cross References
Genesis 18:14Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.
Psalms 44:21\44:20\If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
Psalms 139:2You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
Ecclesiastes 3:14I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.
Isaiah 43:13From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?
Jeremiah 17:10I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with 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 →