Listen to this, O Job: stand still, and be admonished of the power of the Lord.

For I will regard the heavens, the work of Your fingers; the moon and stars, which You have established.

Who is wise, and will observe these things, and understand the mercies of the Lord?

For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes; but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of His hands.

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

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

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:

For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? And who shall turn back His uplifted hand?

even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of My hands; I will work, and who shall turn it back?

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;

calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned; I have spoken, and brought [him]; I have created and made [him]; I have brought him, and prospered his way.

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?

For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."

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

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,