Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.
You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”
“Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—
If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
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