Job 42:2

“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

Majority Standard Bible

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 replied to the LORD:

3You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:14Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”

Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

Psalms 139:2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.

Isaiah 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

Jeremiah 17:10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

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 →

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