Job 33:13

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

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

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

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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?”

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

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

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

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

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

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

Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

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

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “ ‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’ ”

It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?

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

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

“Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

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

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,

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

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

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 have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.

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?”

Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”

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!

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?