'Power' in the Bible

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that Job has is in your power, only do not put your hand on the man himself.” So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.

“In famine He will redeem you from death,And in war from the power of the sword.

“If your children have sinned against Him,Then He has handed them over to the power of their transgression and punished them.

“The tents of the destroyers prosper;And those who provoke God are [apparently] secure,Whom God brings into their power.

“With Him are might and sound wisdom,The misled and the misleader are His [and in His power].

“Why do the wicked still live,Become old, and become mighty in power?

“But notice, the prosperity of the wicked is not in their hand (in their power);The counsel of the wicked [and the mystery of God’s dealings with the ungodly] is far from my comprehension.

“But the land is possessed by the man with power,And the favored and honorable man dwells in it.

“Would He contend against me with His great power?No, surely He would give attention to me.

“Yet God draws away the mighty by His power;He rises, but no one has assurance of life.

“What a help you are to the weak (powerless)!How you have saved the arm that is without strength!

“He stirred up the sea by His power,And by His understanding He smashed [proud] Rahab.

“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power],The faintest whisper of His voice!Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”

“For it will hurl [thunderbolts of God’s wrath] at him unsparingly and without compassion;He flees in haste from its power.

“Behold, God is mighty, and yet does not despise anyone [nor regard any as trivial];He is mighty in the strength and power of understanding.

“Behold, God is exalted in His power;Who is a ruler or a teacher like Him?

“God seals (brings to a standstill, stops) [by severe weather] the hand of every man,That all men [whom He has made] may know His work [that is, His sovereign power and their subjection to it].

“The Almighty—we cannot find Him;He is exalted in powerAnd He will not do violence to [nor disregard] justice and abundant righteousness.

“See now, his strength is in his loinsAnd his power is in the muscles and sinews of his belly.

“He is the first [in magnitude and power] of the works of God;[Only] He who made him can bring near His sword [to master him].