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Job 42:2

“I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.”

Job 42:2, King James Version (KJV)

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

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Job 42 (KJV)

  1. 1Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
  2. 2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
  3. 3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
  4. 4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
  5. 5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
  6. 6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
  7. 7And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
  8. 8Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
  9. 9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
  10. 10And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
  11. 11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
  12. 12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
  13. 13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
  14. 14And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
  15. 15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
  16. 16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
  17. 17So Job died, being old and full of days.

Related verses

Passages that readers often connect with Job 42:2, in the King James Version.

  • Matthew 19:26

    But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

  • Mark 10:27

    And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

  • Genesis 18:14

    Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

  • Jeremiah 32:17

    Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

  • Hebrews 4:12–13

    For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. …

  • Isaiah 46:10

    Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

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