Quotes About Creation

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

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.

He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

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?”

Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.

But God understands its way, and He knows its place.

For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

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,

then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

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,

who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.