Quotes About Power

But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.

“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.

Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.

By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,

when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?

If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

Could one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One,

who says to kings, ëYou are worthless!í and to nobles, ëYou are wicked,í

They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets up others in their place.