Quotes About Power

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

and I declared: ëYou may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stopí?

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ëHere we areí?

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?

Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?

Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?

He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.

Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

Do you have an arm like Godís? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.

Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

Then I will confess to you that your own right hand can save you.