Bible Verses About God

You rise up to hunt me like a lion, and you keep treating me in such peculiar ways.

You keep producing fresh witnesses against me, your anger against me keeps growing, your troops assail me, wave after wave.

"'Why did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died there where no eye could see me.

"But ask the animals - they will teach you -and the birds in the air - they will tell you;

or speak to the earth - it will teach you -and the fish in the sea will inform you:

every one of them knows that the hand of ADONAI has done this!

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the spirit of every human being.

Shouldn't the ear test words, just as the palate tastes food?

Is wisdom [only] with aged men? discernment [only] with long life?

"With God are wisdom and power; he has [good] counsel and understanding.

When he breaks something down, it can't be rebuilt; when he imprisons someone, he can't be released.

When he holds back water, there is drought; when he sends it out, it overruns the land.

With him are strength and common sense; both the misled and those who mislead are his.

He leads counselors away captive, he makes fools of judges.

He removes authority from kings, then binds them up [as prisoners].

He leads cohanim away captive and overthrows those long in power.

Those who are trusted he deprives of speech, and he removes the discernment of the aged.

He stretches the north over chaos and suspends the earth on nothing.

He binds up the water in his thick clouds, yet no cloud is torn apart by it.

He shuts off the view of his throne by spreading his cloud across it.

He fixed a circle on the surface of the water, defining the boundary between light and dark.

The pillars of heaven tremble, aghast at his rebuke.

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his skill he strikes down Rahav.

With his Spirit he spreads the heavens; his hand pierces the fleeing serpent.

And these are but the fringes of his ways; how faint the echo we hear of him! But who is able to grasp the meaning of his thundering power?"