Job 10:13

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

“You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.

For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.