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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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wise in heart.

Job 9:19• ¹⁹If [I turn] to might, lo, [he is] strong,{HR}If to judicial trial, who will cite me? (Job 9:19)

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Job 36:5• ⁵Lo! God [El] [is] great, and despiseth not,{HR}Great in strength — in heart. (Job 36:5)

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Psa. 104:24• ²⁴How manifold are thy works, O Jehovah!{HR}In wisdom hast thou wrought them all:{HR}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;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever. (Psa. 136:5)

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Dan. 2:20• ²⁰{i}Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; For wisdom and might are his.{/i} (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 heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth forever; 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 heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
³⁶{i}At 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.{/i}
³⁷{i}Now 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.{/i} (Dan. 4:34‑37)

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

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Eph. 1:8,19• ⁸which he caused to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligence,
¹⁹and what the surpassing greatness of his power toward us that 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 there might be known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly [places] by the assembly the manifold wisdom of God,
²⁰Now to him that is able to do above all things far exceedingly above what we ask or think, according to the power that worketh 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 an only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord [be] glory, majesty, might, and authority, before all times, and now, and unto all the ages. Amen. (Jude 24‑25)

who hath hardened.

Job 6:10• ¹⁰So would it ever be my comfort,{HR}And I would exult if he in pain should not spare,{HR}For I have not denied the words of the Holy One. (Job 6:10)

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Job 15:23‑27• ²³He wandereth for bread: where [is it]?{HR}He knoweth that ready at his hand is a day of darkness.
²⁴Trouble and anguish make him afraid,{HR}They overpower him, as a king ready for the onset.
²⁵For against God he stretched out his hand,{HR}And against the Almighty played the hero,
²⁶Ran against him with neck (proudly),{HR}With the thick bosses of his shields.
²⁷For he covereth his face with his fatness,{HR}And gathereth fat on [his] loins: (Job 15:23‑27)

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Job 40:9• ⁹Or hast thou an arm like God (El),{HR}And with a voice like him dost thou thunder? (Job 40:9)

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Ex. 9:14‑17• ¹⁴{i}For 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.{/i}
¹⁵{i}For 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.{/i}
¹⁶{i}And for this very cause have I raised thee up, to show thee my power; and that my name may be declared in all the earth.{/i}
¹⁷{i}Dost thou still exalt thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?{/i} (Ex. 9:14‑17)

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Ex. 14:17‑18• ¹⁷{i}And 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.{/i}
¹⁸{i}And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have glorified myself in Pharaoh, in his chariots and in his horsemen.{/i} (Ex. 14:17‑18)

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Prov. 28:14• ¹⁴{i}Happy is the man that feareth always;{HR}But he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil.{/i} (Prov. 28:14)

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Prov. 29:1• ¹{i}He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck,{HR}Shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy.{/i} (Prov. 29:1)

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Dan. 5:20‑30• ²⁰{i}But 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;{/i}
²¹{i}and 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.{/i}
²²And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; {i}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;{/i} and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
²⁴{i}then from before him was sent the part of the hand, and this writing hath been written.{/i}
²⁵{i}And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.{/i}
²⁶This is the interpretation of the thing. MENE, {i}God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it{/i};
²⁷TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
²⁸PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
²⁹{i}Then 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.{/i}
³⁰In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. (Dan. 5:20‑30)

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1 Cor. 10:22• ²²What! do 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."

W. Kelly Translation

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Wise in heart, and mighty in strength!{HR}Who hath held out against him, and been unhurt?