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Verse of the Day · Thou canst do every thing

Job 42:2 (KJV)

“I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.”

Job 42:2 · King James Version

Job 42:2 is verse of the day number 75 of 366 on Lampfold, under the theme “Thou canst do every thing”. It comes from Job 42, and 10 other passages connected to it are listed below.

Job 42:2 in other translations

  • “I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

    Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

  • I know that thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of thine can be restrained.

    American Standard Version (ASV)

Job 42:2 in context

Job 42:1–5 (KJV). The verse of the day is highlighted.

1Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Read the whole of Job 42 →

Cross-references for Job 42:2

Passages most often linked to Job 42:2, strongest connections first.

  • But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

  • And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

  • Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

  • For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

  • Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

  • Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

  • In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

  • Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

  • There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

  • But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

Cross-reference data courtesy of openBible.info (CC-BY).

Scripture text: King James Version, Berean Standard Bible and American Standard Version (public domain).