Job 42:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יָ֭דַעְתִּי כִּי־כֹ֣ל תּוּכָ֑ל וְלֹא־יִבָּצֵ֖ר מִמְּךָ֣ מְזִמָּֽה׃

Transliteration

yādaʿtî that-kōl tûkāl and lōʾ-yibbāṣēr from-you məzimmâ

Grammar Details

*yādaʿtî*: Qal perfect, 1st singular - I know/have known
*kōl*: noun, masculine singular construct - all/everything
*tûkāl*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you are able/can
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*yibbāṣēr*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - is withheld/prevented
*məzimmâ*: noun, feminine singular - purpose/plan/thought

Word Meanings

*yādaʿtî*: I know/I have known/I acknowledge
*kōl*: all/everything/anything
*tûkāl*: you can/you are able/you have power
*yibbāṣēr*: is withheld/is prevented/is impossible
*məzimmâ*: purpose/plan/thought/device/scheme

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Matt 19:26 : 26 And Jesus looking upon [them] said to them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.
Mark 10:27 : 27 Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.
John 2:24-25 : 24 But {G846} Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men, 25 and because he needed not that any one should bear witness concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
Eph 1:11 : 11 in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;
Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Ps 44:21 : 21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Prov 19:21 : 21 There are many devices in a man's heart; But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.
Eccl 3:14 : 14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.
Isa 14:27 : 27 For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
Isa 43:13 : 13 Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
Isa 46:10 : 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Jer 32:17 : 17 Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for thee,
Ezek 38:10 : 10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:
Ps 139:2 : 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.
Job 23:13 : 13 But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Mark 14:36 : 36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Luke 18:27 : 27 But he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
John 21:17 : 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

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