God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?—
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He goes to the stellar spaces. And he alone does that. Who does great things, unfathomable, wondrous works without number. yes I know a great God is what I need is an audience with him look at him he is the one who does all of this about us and he is enormous and I fear him I stand before him in awe and wonder all I want is to be able to approach him and talk this out you haven't helped me do that build that. now with that there are four lines of questions that are that that follow and and keep in mind job has an in the back of his mind we're going to see a courtroom he would love to be able if you will to step into a divine courtroom and to speak to the judge the lord god he would love to walk just as he is covered with these sores and the sadness of his life and the bankruptcy of his condition and just stand before the judge and argue his case. …
… If one wished to dispute with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand times. Wise in heart and mighty in strength, who has defied him without harm? Verse 32, for he is not a man as I am, that I may answer him, that we may go to court together. There is no umpire, there's no arbitrator between us, no defense attorney between us, who may lay his hand upon us both. Let him remove his rod from me, and let not dread of him terrify me. Then across the page, just one section more in chapter 10, verse 17. You renew your witness against me and increase your anger toward me. Hardship after hardship is with me. Why then have you brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me. I should have been as though I had not been carried from womb to tomb. the words of a broken man. If you have ever been there, you can identify. …
2. God is, in fact, the supreme judge of the world. He hath power sufficient to vindicate his own right. As he hath a right which cannot be disputed, so he hath power which cannot be controlled. He is possessed of omnipotence, wherewith to maintain his dominion over the world; and he doth maintain his dominion in the moral as well as the natural world. Men may refuse subjection to God as a lawgiver; they may shake off the yoke of his laws by rebellion; yet they cannot withdraw themselves from his judgment. Although they will not have God for their lawgiver, yet they shall have him for their judge. The strongest of creatures can do nothing to control God, or to avoid him while acting in his judicial capacity. He is able to bring them to his judgment-seat, and is also able to execute the sentence which he shall pronounce. There was once a notable attempt made by opposition of power entirely to shake off the yoke of the moral government of God, both as lawgiver, and as judge. This attempt was made by the angels, the most mighty of creatures; but they miserably failed in it: God notwithstanding acted as their judge in casting those proud spirits out of heaven, and binding them in chains of darkness unto a further judgment, and a further execution. “God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?”Job ix. 4. Wherein the enemies of God deal proudly, he is above them. He ever hath acted as judge in bestowing what rewards, and inflicting what punishments, he pleased on the children of men. And so he doth still; he is daily fulfilling the promises and threatenings of the law, in disposing of the souls of the children of men, and so he evermore will act. …