"But will God indeed dwell with humankind upon the earth? Look, the heavens and {the highest heavens} cannot contain you! Surely then this house that I have built [will not contain you!]

"If there is a famine in the land; if there is disease, blight, mildew, locust, and caterpillar; if it happens that his enemy lays siege to him in the land [and] his gates; any kind of plague, any kind of disease,

In those days I saw in Judah [people] treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps [of grain] and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing [it all] to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food.

Tyrian men who lived in [Jerusalem] brought fish and every kind of merchandise and sold [it] on the Sabbath to the descendants of Judah and in Jerusalem.

{If it pleases} the king, let {a royal edict} go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media so that it will not be altered, that Vashti cannot come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to her neighbor who [is] better than she.

Write {as you see fit} concerning the Jews in the name of the king, and seal [it] with the king's signet ring; for a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's signet ring cannot be revoked."

If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one [time] in a thousand.

whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From my judge I must implore grace.

If he tears down, then it will not be rebuilt; if he shuts a man in, then he cannot be freed.

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

If his days [are] determined, the number of his months [is] with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross [them].

For then you would count my steps, [but] you would not keep watch over my sin.

Should he argue in talk [that] is not profitable or [in] words with which he cannot do good?

{He cannot trust that he will return} from darkness, and he himself is destined for [the] sword.

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.

The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

[As for] me, [is] my complaint for human beings? And if [so], why cannot I be impatient?

or [it is so] dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

"When I go forward, {he is not there}, or backward, I cannot see him.

{When he works} [on the] left, {I cannot perceive} [him]; he turns to [the] right, but I cannot see [him].

Yet he carries off [the] tyrants by his strength; [if] he rises up, then he cannot be certain of life.

"Refined gold cannot be gotten in its place, and silver cannot be weighed out [as] its price.

It cannot be bought for the gold of Ophir, for precious onyx or sapphire.

Gold and glass cannot be compared with it, and its substitution [cannot be] an ornament of refined gold.

The topaz of Cush cannot be compared with it; it cannot be bought for pure gold.

Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

teach me yourself {what I cannot see}; if I have done wrong, I will not repeat [it]'?

"God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things, and we cannot comprehend.

"Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of [the] presence of darkness.

[As for] Shaddai, we cannot attain him; [he is] exalted [in] power, and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness.

It explores [the] mountains [as] its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.

With roar and rage {it races over the ground}, and it cannot stand still at [the] sound of [the] horn.

They are close {to one another}-- even [the] air cannot come between them.

They are joined {one to another}; they cling together and cannot be separated.

For you [are] not a God [who] desires wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you.

I can count all my bones; they gaze, they look at me.

All [the] {healthy ones} of [the] earth will eat and worship. Before him all [of] those descending [into the] dust will kneel, even he [who] cannot keep his soul alive.

But as for me, like [the] deaf I cannot hear, and [I am] like [the] mute [who] cannot open his mouth.

Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done-- your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us. There is none to compare with you. If I [tried to] proclaim and tell [of them], they would be too numerous to count.

For I do not trust my bow, and my sword cannot give me victory.

Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers.

Surely a man cannot redeem a brother. He cannot give to God his ransom

But man cannot continue in [his] pomp. He is like the beasts [that] perish.

You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; [are they] not in your book?

Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see, and make their loins continually tremble.

[The] stouthearted are plundered; they sleep their sleep, and all [the] able men cannot {use} their hands.

You hold [open] my eyelids. I am troubled and cannot speak.

You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestable to them. [I am] confined and cannot go out.

[The] brutish man does not know, and [the] fool cannot understand this.

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;

[they have] their hands, but they cannot feel, their feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot utter a sound in their throats.

Those who trust in Yahweh [are] like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, [but] abides forever.

[with] which a reaper cannot fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his {arms},

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

they have ears, but cannot hear; there is not even breath in their mouths.

[Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is set high; I cannot [prevail] against it.

If I should count them, they would outnumber [the] sand. I awaken, and I [am] still with you.

Let burning coals fall on them; let them be dropped into the fire, into bottomless pits [from which] they cannot rise.

He who lends to Yahweh [is] he who is kind to the poor, and his benefits he will repay to him.

He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

What is twisted cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

All his days [are] painful, his labor [brings] grief, and his heart cannot rest at night. This also [is] vanity!

Whatever is--it was already determined, {what will be--it has already been decided}. As for man, he cannot argue against what is more powerful than him.

In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen {in the future}.

Then I saw all the work of God--man [is] not able to discover the work that is done under the sun. Although man may toil in seeking, he cannot find it. Even if a wise man claims [that he] knows it, he cannot find it.

The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}.

The mandrakes give [off their] fragrance, and {over our doorway is every kind of delicious fruit}; both {fresh and dried fruit I have stored up} for you, O my beloved.

Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house {for love}, he would be utterly scorned.

You must not {continue} to bring offerings of futility, incense--it [is] an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, [the] calling of a convocation-- I cannot endure iniquity with [solemn] assembly.

and against every kind of high tower, and against every kind of fortified wall,

We became pregnant, we writhed; we gave birth [to] wind. We cannot bring about deliverance [on the] earth, and no inhabitants of [the] world are born.

Everyone will start to stink because of a people [that] cannot profit them, not for help and not for profiting, but for shame and also for disgrace."

An oracle of the animals of the Negev: Through a land of trouble and distress, [of] lioness and lion, {among} them [are] snake and flying serpent; they carry their wealth on [the] {backs} of male donkeys and their treasures on [the] humps of camels, to a people [that] cannot profit [them].

You will not see [the] insolent people, [the] people {whose language is too obscure to understand}, [whose] stammering of tongue {cannot be understood}.

Rather, there Yahweh [will be] mighty for us, a place of rivers [and] {broad streams}, a galley ship with oars cannot go in it, and a mighty ship cannot pass through it.

For Sheol cannot praise you; death [cannot] praise you. Those who go down [to the] pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

And [the] artisan encourages [the] {goldsmith}, [the] one who makes smooth with [the] hammer [encourages the] one who strikes [the] anvil, saying of the soldering, "It [is] good!" And they strengthen it with nails [so] it cannot be knocked over.

who brings out chariot and horse, army and mighty one. Together they lie down; they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched like wick.

Who would form a god and cast an image of [which] he cannot profit?

They do not know, and they do not understand, for their eyes [are] besmeared {so that they cannot see}, their {minds} {so that they have no insight}.

[He] feeds [on] ashes; a {deceived mind} misleads him. And he cannot save {himself}, and he cannot say, "Is [this] not an illusion in my right hand?"

Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations! They do not know, those who carry {their wooden idols} and pray to a god who cannot save.

To whom will you liken me, and count as equal, and compare with me, as though we were alike?

They carry it on [their] shoulder; they support it and they set it [in] its place, and it stands in position. It cannot be removed from its place; even [when] he cries out to it, it does not answer. It does not save him from his trouble.

Look! They are like stubble; [the] fire burns them completely. They cannot deliver {themselves} from [the] {power} of [the] flame; there is no coal {for warming oneself}, [no] fire before which to sit.

Why do you weigh out money for [what is] not food, and your labor for {what cannot satisfy}? Listen carefully to me, and eat [what is] good, and let your soul take pleasure in {rich} food.

Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works [are] works of iniquity, and deeds of violence [are] in their hands.

My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear [in] my inner self the sound of a horn, [the] alarm of war.

Look, I [am] about to bring on you a nation from afar, house of Israel," {declares} Yahweh. "It [is] an enduring nation, it [is] {an ancient nation}. A nation whose language you do not know, and you cannot understand what they speak.

Do you not revere me?" {declares} Yahweh, "Do you not tremble {before me}? For I have placed [the] sand [as] a boundary for the sea, {as an everlasting limit}, and it cannot pass over it, and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail, and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it.

They [are] like scarecrows in a cucumber field, they cannot speak. Indeed, they must be carried, for they cannot march. You must not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil; furthermore, to do good [is] not in them."

But Yahweh [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and {an everlasting king}. Because of his wrath the earth quakes, and [the] nations cannot endure his anger.

Or can a person hide himself in secret places and I cannot see him?" {declares} Yahweh. "[Do] I not fill up the heaven and the earth?" {declares} Yahweh.

And Yahweh asked me, "What [are] you seeing, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs--the good figs, very good, and the bad [figs], very bad, that cannot be eaten because of [their] bad quality."

But like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because of [their] bad quality--for thus says Yahweh--so I will treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt.

thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'Look, I [am] going to send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, and I will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten because of [their] bad quality.

As the host of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will make numerous the offspring of David my servant and the Levites [who] minister [to] me.'"

The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape. They have stumbled and they have fallen, by the bank of the Euphrates River.

My rebellion was bound [as] a yoke, with his hand it was fastened together; it was put on my neck [and] caused my strength to fail. The Lord gave me into the hands [of those whom] I cannot withstand.