Job 34:13

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Job 34:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.

12 Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.

13 Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?

14 If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

15 all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

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Job 36:23

Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?

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 40:8

Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

Job 40:9

Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

Job 40:10

Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and clothe yourself with honor and glory.

Job 40:11

Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.

1 Chronicles 29:11

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

Proverbs 8:23

From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.

Proverbs 8:25

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,

Proverbs 8:26

before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.

Proverbs 8:27

I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

Proverbs 8:28

when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,

Proverbs 8:29

when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

Proverbs 8:30

Then I was a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight day by day, rejoicing always in His presence.

Isaiah 40:13

Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?

Isaiah 40:14

Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?

Daniel 4:35

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

Romans 11:34

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

Romans 11:35

“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”

Romans 11:36

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.