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Quotes About Control

“Keep your money,” said the king to Haman. “These people are given to you to do with them as you please.”
~ Esther 3:11
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
~ Job 1:12
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
~ Job 2:6
Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?
~ Job 7:12
He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.
~ Job 9:5
He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.
~ Job 9:7
If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
~ Job 11:10
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
~ Job 12:10
If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
~ Job 12:15
He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.
~ Job 12:18
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
~ Job 13:27
Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
~ Job 14:5
though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
~ Job 20:13
Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.
~ Job 24:22
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
~ Job 28:25
when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
~ Job 28:26
With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
~ Job 30:18
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
~ Job 34:14
He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
~ Job 36:32
Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
~ Job 37:15
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
~ Job 38:10
and I declared: ëYou may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stopí?
~ Job 38:11
Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
~ Job 38:25
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
~ Job 38:31