Verse 13

Who ruleth the earth but he? or who hath placed the whole world?

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 29:11 : 11 Thyne O Lorde is greatnesse, and power, glory, victorie, and prayse: for all that is in heauen and in earth is thyne, and thyne is the kingdome O Lorde, and thou excellest aboue all, euen as the head of all.
  • Job 36:23 : 23 Who wyll reproue him of his way? Who wil say vnto him, Thou hast done wrong?
  • Job 38:4-9 : 4 Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding. 5 Who hath measured it, knowest thou? or who hath spread the lyne vpon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations set? or who layed the corner stone thereof? 7 Where wast thou when the morning starres praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced triumphantly? 8 Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe? 9 When I made the cloudes to be a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke: 10 When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it, 11 Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues. 12 Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place, 13 That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it. 14 They are fashioned as is the clay with the seale, and all stand vp as a garment. 15 The vngodly shall be disapointed of their light, and the arme of the proude shalbe broken. 16 Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea, or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe? 17 Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death? 18 Hast thou also perceaued how brode the earth is? If thou hast knowledge of all this: 19 Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse? 20 That thou shouldest receaue it in the boundes thereof, and know the pathes to their houses. 21 Knewest thou afore thou wast borne how olde thou shouldest be? 22 Wentest thou euer into the treasures of the snow, or hast thou seene the secrete places of the hayle, 23 Which I haue prepared against the time of trouble, against the time of battaile and warre? 24 By what way is the light parted? and into what land breaketh the east winde? 25 Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder, 26 To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth? 27 To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth. 28 Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe? 29 Out of whose wombe came the yce? Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre? 30 That the waters are hidde as with a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe. 31 Wylt thou hinder the sweete influences of the seuen starres? or loose the bandes of Orion? 32 Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arctutus with his sonnes? 33 Knowest thou the course of heauen, that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce thereof vpon the earth? 34 Moreouer, canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee? 35 Canst thou send the lightninges also, that they may go their way, and be obedient vnto thee, saying, Lo here are we? 36 Who hath put wysdome in the reynes? or who hath geuen the heart vnderstanding? 37 Who numbreth the cloudes in wysdome? who stilleth the vehement waters of the heauen? 38 To cause the earth to grow into hardnesse, & the clots to cleaue fast together? 39 Wylt thou hunt the pray for the lion? or fill the appetite of the lions whelpes, 40 When they couche in their places, and tarie in the couert to lye in wayte? 41 Who prouideth meate for the rauen, when his young ones crye vnto God, and flee about for lacke of meate?
  • Job 40:8-9 : 8 Wylt thou disanul my iudgement? or wylt thou condempne me, that thou mayst be righteous? 9 Is thy power then lyke the power of God? maketh thy voyce a sounde as his doth? 10 Decke thy selfe now with excellencie and maiestie, and araye thy selfe with beautie and glory: 11 Cast abrode the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him:
  • Prov 8:23-30 : 23 I haue ben ordayned from euerlasting, and from the beginning or euer the earth was made. 24 When I was borne there were neither depthes nor springes of water. 25 Before the foundations of the mountaines were layde: yea before all hilles, was I borne: 26 The earth, and all that is vpon the earth was not yet made, no not the dust it selfe. 27 For when he made the heauens, I was present, when he compassed the deapthes about: 28 When he hanged the cloudes aboue, when he fastened the springes of the deepe: 29 When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth, 30 I was with him ordring all thinges, deliting dayly and reioysyng alway before hym.
  • Isa 40:13-14 : 13 Who hath directed the spirite of the Lorde? or who gaue hym counsayle, and shewed hym? 14 Who is of his counsayle, and geueth hym vnderstandyng, and hath taught hym the path of iudgement? who taught hym cunnyng, and opened to hym the way of vnderstandyng?
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And all they that dwel vpon the earth, are to be reputed as nothing, and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen, among the inhabitours of the earth: and there is none that may resist his hand, or say vnto him, what doest thou?
  • Rom 11:34-36 : 34 For who hath knowen the mynde of the Lorde? Or who hath ben his councellour? 35 Either who hath geuen vnto hym first, & he shalbe recompensed agayne. 36 For of hym, and through hym, and for hym, are all thynges: To whom be glory for euer. Amen.