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Job Submits Himself to the LORD

Job 42:2

In 11 translations

BSB
“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
KJV
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.no thought can be…: or, no thought of thine can be hindered
WEB
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
ASV
I know that thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of thine can be restrained.
LSV
“You have known that [for] all things You are able, || And no purpose is withheld from You.
YLT
Thou hast known that [for] all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is [any] device:
DBY
I know that thou canst do everything, and that thou canst be hindered in no thought of thine.
DRC
I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from thee.
GNV
I knowe that thou canst doe all things, and that there is no thought hidde from thee.
JPS
I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no purpose can be withholden from Thee.
LXXE
I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee.

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  • Written (Ketiv): יָדַעְתָּ (“you know”). Read aloud (Qere): יָ֭דַעְתִּי (“I know”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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  • Leningrad Codex reads יָ֭דַעְתִּ; read aloud (Qere) reads יָ֭דַעְתִּי (“I know”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC
ידעת כִּי־כֹ֣ל תּוּכָ֑ל וְלֹא־יִבָּצֵ֖ר מִמְּךָ֣ מְזִמָּֽה׃Read aloud as (qere): יָ֭דַעְתִּי
LXX-Br
Οἶδα ὅτι πάντα δύνασαι, ἀδυνατεῖ δέ σοι οὐδέν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Matthew 19:26Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
  • Mark 10:27Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
  • Genesis 18:14Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
  • Hebrews 4:12–13For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Nothing in all creation…
  • Jeremiah 32:17“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
  • Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
  • Ephesians 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
  • Proverbs 19:21Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
  • Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
  • Job 23:13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
  • Isaiah 14:27The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
  • Isaiah 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
  • Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
  • Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.
  • John 2:24–25But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all. He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
  • Psalms 139:2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

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