Proverbs 30:4

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Proverbs 30:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.

3 I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.

4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!

5 Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

6 Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.

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Deuteronomy 30:12

It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

John 3:13

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

Romans 10:6

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down)

Ephesians 4:9

What does “He ascended” mean, except that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth?

Ephesians 4:10

He who descended is the very One who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

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?

Psalms 104:2

He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

Psalms 104:3

laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

Psalms 104:4

He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.

Psalms 104:5

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

Psalms 104:6

You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Psalms 104:7

At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

Psalms 104:8

the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—

Psalms 104:9

You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.

Psalms 104:10

He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

Psalms 104:11

They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

Psalms 104:12

The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.

Psalms 104:13

He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.

Psalms 104:14

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

Psalms 104:15

wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

Psalms 104:16

The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

Psalms 104:17

where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.

Psalms 104:18

The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

Psalms 104:19

He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.

Psalms 104:20

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Psalms 104:21

The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

Psalms 104:22

The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.

Psalms 104:23

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.

Psalms 104:24

How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Psalms 104:25

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

Psalms 104:26

There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

Psalms 104:27

All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.

Psalms 104:28

When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

Psalms 104:29

When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

Psalms 104:30

When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

Psalms 104:31

May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works.

Psalms 104:32

He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.

Psalms 104:33

I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

Psalms 104:34

May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.

Psalms 104:35

May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

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?

Isaiah 40:15

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

Isaiah 40:16

Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

Isaiah 40:18

To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

Isaiah 40:19

To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

Isaiah 40:20

To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?

Isaiah 40:21

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?

Isaiah 40:22

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Isaiah 40:23

He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

Isaiah 40:24

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Isaiah 40:25

“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

Isaiah 40:28

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

Isaiah 40:29

He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.

Isaiah 40:30

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.

Isaiah 40:31

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

Isaiah 53:8

By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

Exodus 3:13

Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?”

Exodus 3:14

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Exodus 3:15

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

Exodus 6:3

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.

Exodus 34:5

And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.

Exodus 34:6

Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

Exodus 34:7

maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

Deuteronomy 28:58

If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—

Genesis 32:29

And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.

Judges 13:18

“Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”

Psalms 2:7

I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Jeremiah 23:6

In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

Matthew 1:21

She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

Matthew 1:22

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:

Matthew 1:23

“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

Matthew 11:27

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

Luke 10:22

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”