Quotes About Authority

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

Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?

Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ëYou have done wrongí?

He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.

Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

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,

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

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?

And the LORD said to Job:

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.

He is the foremost of Godís works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?