Genesis 9:10

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Genesis 9:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

9 “Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.

11 And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

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Genesis 9:15

I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

Genesis 9:16

And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”

Genesis 8:1

But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

Job 38:1

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

Job 38:2

“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 38:3

Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

Job 38:4

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Job 38:5

Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

Job 38:6

On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

Job 38:7

while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:8

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

Job 38:10

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Job 38:11

and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

Job 38:12

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Job 38:13

that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

Job 38:14

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Job 38:15

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Job 38:16

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Job 38:18

Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

Job 38:19

Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

Job 38:20

so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

Job 38:21

Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!

Job 38:22

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

Job 38:23

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

Job 38:24

In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

Job 38:25

Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

Job 38:26

to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

Job 38:27

to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

Job 38:28

Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

Job 38:29

From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

Job 38:30

when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Job 38:31

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Job 38:32

Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

Job 38:33

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

Job 38:34

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Job 38:35

Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

Job 38:37

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Job 38:38

when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

Job 38:39

Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

Job 38:40

when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

Job 38:41

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

Job 41:1

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Job 41:2

Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 41:3

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Job 41:4

Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

Job 41:5

Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

Job 41:6

Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

Job 41:7

Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

Job 41:8

If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

Job 41:9

Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

Job 41:10

No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

Job 41:11

Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

Job 41:12

I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

Job 41:13

Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

Job 41:14

Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

Job 41:15

His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

Job 41:16

One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

Job 41:17

They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

Job 41:18

His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Job 41:19

Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

Job 41:20

Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

Job 41:21

His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

Job 41:22

Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

Job 41:23

The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

Job 41:24

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

Job 41:25

When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

Job 41:26

The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

Job 41:27

He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:28

No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

Job 41:29

A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

Job 41:30

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

Job 41:31

He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

Job 41:32

He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

Job 41:33

Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!

Job 41:34

He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

Psalms 36:5

Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalms 36:6

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Psalms 145:9

The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

Jonah 4:11

So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”