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Hea is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

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Jude 24• ²⁴But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you with exultation blameless before his glory, (Jude 24)

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Job 9:19• ¹⁹Be it a question of strength, lo, he is strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time? (Job 9:19)

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Job 36:5• ⁵Lo, *God is mighty, but despiseth not any; mighty in strength of understanding: (Job 36:5)

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Psa. 104:24• ²⁴How manifold are thy works, O Jehovah! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. (Psa. 104:24)

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Psa. 136:5• ⁵To him that by understanding made the heavens, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever; (Psa. 136:5)

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Dan. 2:20• ²⁰Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever; For wisdom and might are his. (Dan. 2:20)

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Dan. 4:34‑37• ³⁴And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto the heavens, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation.
³⁵And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of the heavens, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
³⁶At the same time mine understanding returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my nobles sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added unto me.
³⁷Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. (Dan. 4:34‑37)

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Rom. 11:33• ³³O depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways! (Rom. 11:33)

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Eph. 1:8,19• ⁸which he has caused to abound towards us in all wisdom and intelligence,
¹⁹and what the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the working of the might of his strength, (Eph. 1:8,19)

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Eph. 3:10,20• ¹⁰in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God,
²⁰But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us, (Eph. 3:10,20)

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Jude 24‑25• ²⁴But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you with exultation blameless before his glory,
²⁵to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority, from before the whole age, and now, and to all the ages. Amen. (Jude 24‑25)

who hath hardened.

Job 6:10• ¹⁰Then should I yet have comfort; and in the pain which spareth not I would rejoice that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. (Job 6:10)

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Job 15:23‑27• ²³He wandereth abroad for bread,--where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
²⁴Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
²⁵For he hath stretched out his hand against *God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
²⁶He runneth against him, with outstretched neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;
²⁷For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his flanks. (Job 15:23‑27)

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Job 40:9• ⁹Hast thou an arm like *God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? (Job 40:9)

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Ex. 9:14‑17• ¹⁴For I will at this time send all my plagues to thy heart, and on thy bondmen, and on thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
¹⁵For now shall I put forth my hand, and I will smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
¹⁶And for this very cause have I raised thee up, to shew thee my power; and that my name may be declared in all the earth.
¹⁷Dost thou still exalt thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? (Ex. 9:14‑17)

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Ex. 14:17‑18• ¹⁷And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall pursue after them; and I will glorify myself in Pharaoh and in all his host, in his chariots and in his horsemen.
¹⁸And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have glorified myself in Pharaoh, in his chariots and in his horsemen. (Ex. 14:17‑18)

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Prov. 28:14• ¹⁴Happy is the man that feareth always; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil. (Prov. 28:14)

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Prov. 29:1• ¹He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy. (Prov. 29:1)

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Dan. 5:20‑30• ²⁰But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;
²¹and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the Most High God ruleth over the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
²²And thou, Belshazzar, his son, hast not humbled thy heart, although thou knewest all this;
²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of the heavens; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
²⁴then from before him was sent the part of the hand, and this writing hath been written.
²⁵And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
²⁶This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;
²⁷TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;
²⁸PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
²⁹Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
³⁰In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. (Dan. 5:20‑30)

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1 Cor. 10:22• ²²Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? (1 Cor. 10:22)

• It is not one presuming in all lowliness to ask God for a reason, as Jeremiah under similar circumstances does (Jer. 12:1-4), but rather the hardness of despair—might is right; and God has might on His side. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

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He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peaceb?

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Or "hath prospered."