Job 42:2
“You have known that [for] all things You are able, || And no purpose is withheld from You.
Literal Standard 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
1And Job answers YHWH and says:
Cross References
Genesis 18:14Is anything too wonderful for YHWH? At the appointed time I return to you, about the time of life, and Sarah has a son.”
Psalms 44:21Does God not search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalms 139:2You have known my sitting down, || And my rising up, || You have attended to my thoughts from afar.
Ecclesiastes 3:14I have known that all that God does is for all time, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God has worked that they fear before Him.
Isaiah 43:13Even from the day I [am] He, || And there is no deliverer from My hand, || I work, and who turns it back?
Jeremiah 17:10I, YHWH, search the heart, try the reins, || Even to give to each according to his way, || 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 →