Job 42:2
I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no purpose can be withholden from Thee.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 the LORD, and said:
Cross References
Genesis 18:14Is any thing too hard for the LORD. At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.'
Psalms 44:21(44-22) Would not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Psalms 139:2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off.
Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it; and God hath so made 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 reverse it?
Jeremiah 17:10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, 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 →