Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wondrous works of the Mighty God.

When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established;

Whoever is wise will observe these things, and they shall understand the goodness of Jehovah.

And the lute, and the harp, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are at their feasts; but they do not regard the work of Jehovah, neither do they give attention to the work of His hands.

What is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.

If He takes away, who can repulse Him? Who can say to Him, What are You doing?

If He passes by, imprisons, and gathers together, then who can repulse Him?

Behold, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

When He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him? It might be against a nation or mankind altogether,

For Jehovah of Hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? And His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Yea, before the day was, I am He; and no one can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?

declaring the end from the beginning, and from antiquity things which are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure;

calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes my counsel from a distant land. Indeed, I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have formed it; I will also do it.

And all those living in the earth are counted as nothing. And He does according to His will in the army of Heaven, and among those living in the earth. And no one is able to restrain His hand or say to Him, What are You doing?

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 yet find fault? For who has resisted His will?

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