Job 34:13

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“Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?”

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BSBPD

“Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 34:13 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Chronicles 29:11Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
  2. Job 36:23Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?
  3. Job 38:4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
  4. Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
  5. Psalms 24:1The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
  6. Proverbs 8:23From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.
  7. Isaiah 40:13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
  8. Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
  9. Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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