Job 12:7-10

Job Replies: The Lord Has Done This

7 "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
 8 or the bushes of the earth, 1 and they will teach you;
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
 9 Who among all these does not know
that h the hand of the Lord has done this?
 10 In i his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind.

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 41:20
    That they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.
    Job 1:21
    And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 16:22
    And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
    Daniel 5:23
    But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
    Acts 17:28
    For "'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.
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