¹² For wisdom provides protection, just as money provides protection. But the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves the life of its owner. ¹³ Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent? ¹⁴ In times of prosperity be joyful, but in times of adversity consider this: God has made one as well as the other, so that no one can discover what the future holds.

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Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be supplied.

Job 12:14

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

Isaiah 14:27

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?

Job 9:12

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, 'What are you doing?'

Job 11:10

If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

Job 34:29

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

Job 37:14

"Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still and consider the wonders God works.

Psalm 8:3

When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

Psalm 107:43

Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things! Let them consider the Lord's acts of loyal love!

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Isaiah 5:12

They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the Lord is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.

Isaiah 43:13

From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?"

Isaiah 46:10-11

who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says, 'My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,'

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him, 'What have you done?'

Romans 9:15

For he says to Moses: "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

Romans 9:19

You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?"

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we too have been claimed as God's own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

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