Job 9:12
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If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
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Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
All 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?’”
Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
In 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,