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

God will not withdraw His anger, The allies of the proud lie prostrate beneath Him.

"If He passes by, imprisons, and gathers [to judgment,] Then who can hinder Him?

If He breaks [a thing] down, it cannot be rebuilt; [If] He imprisons a man, there can be no release.

When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides [His] face, who then can see Him, Whether [it is] against a nation or a man alone? --

"God [is] not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Behold, I have received [a command] to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

[What is] crooked cannot be made straight, And what is lacking cannot be numbered.

I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does [it,] that men should fear before Him.

You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has 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 [is] in heaven; He does whatever He pleases.

Whatever the LORD pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places.

There are many plans in a man's heart, Nevertheless the LORD's counsel -- that will stand.

The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, And as I have purposed, [so] it shall stand:

This [is] the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, And this [is] the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times [things] that are not [yet] done, Saying, 'My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,'

All the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And [among] the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or 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 Him 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,