Job 42:2

“I know that you can do all things, 1 that no purpose of yours can be stopped. 1

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I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

In Context

1Then Job answered Yahweh and said, 1

3'Who is this who without knowledge conceals plans?' 1 Indeed, I have spoken things that I did not understand, 1 things too difficult for me to understand, which I did not know about. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 18:14Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the time appointed by me, in the spring, I will return to you. About this time next year Sarah will have a son.”

Psalms 44:21would not God search this out? 1 For he knows the secrets of the heart. 1

Psalms 139:2You know when I sit down and when I get up; 1 you understand my thoughts from far away. 1

Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that whatever God does lasts forever. Nothing can be added to it or taken away, because it is God who has done it so that people will approach him with honor. 1

Isaiah 43:13From this day on I am he, 1 and no one can rescue anyone from my hand. I act, and who can turn it back?” 1

Jeremiah 17:10I am Yahweh, the one who searches through the mind, who tests the hearts. 1 I give to each person according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds. 1

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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