Job 42:2
“I know you can do anything. No one can prevent you doing what you want.
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In The King James Version
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
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Genesis 18:14Is anything too difficult for the Lord to do? I will come back next year when I said I would, in the spring, and Sarah will have a son.”
Psalms 44:21wouldn't God have been aware of this, because he knows everyone's thoughts?
Psalms 139:2You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know what I'm thinking even when I'm a long way away.
Ecclesiastes 3:14I also concluded that everything God does lasts forever: nothing can be added to it or taken away from it. God acts in this way so that people may stand in awe of him.
Isaiah 43:13I am God from the beginning. No one can snatch anybody from my hand. No one can reverse what I do.
Jeremiah 17:10But I, the Lord, see what people are thinking. I examine their minds, so I can reward them depending on their attitudes and the way they behave.
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 →