If He would take away, who shall turn Him back? Or who shall say to Him, What have You done?

For [if] He has turned away [His] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under Him.

And if He should overthrow all things, who will say to Him, What have You done?

If He should cast down, who will build up? If He should shut up against man, who shall open?

And He will give quiet, and who will condemn? And He will hide His face, and who shall see Him? Whether it be done against a nation, or against a man, also:

God is not as a man that He should waver, nor as a son of man that He should be threatened; shall He say and not perform? Shall He speak and not keep [His word]?

Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: I will bless, and not turn back.

That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and what is lacking cannot be numbered.

I know that whatsoever things God has done, they shall be forever. It is impossible to add to it, and it is impossible to take away from it; and God has done [it], that [men] should fear before Him.

You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has [ever] resisted His will?"

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatsoever He has pleased.

all that the Lord willed, He did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all the deep.

[There are] many thoughts in a man's heart, but the counsel of the Lord abides forever.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be; and as I have purposed, so [the matter] shall remain;

This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth; and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.

declaring beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together; and I said, all My counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned;

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and He does according to His will in the host of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand His power, and say to Him, What have You done?

having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,