Design

How Nave’s arranged it

• In nature, evidence ofJob 12:7–11Proverbs 16:4

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Job 12:7–11

   But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

   ›Commentary on Job 12:7–112 voices

   “But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee. Or speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. What are we to understand by 'the beasts,' but men of slow parts; and what by 'the fowls of the air,' but those that are skilled in high and sublime truths? For of 'the beasts,' i.e. the dull of sense, it is written; Thine animals shall dwell therein.

   “But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee,....

   Everything gathered on Job 12:7–11→

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2. Proverbs 16:4

   The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.

   ›Commentary on Proverbs 16:42 voices

   “Only God does what is good, acting from love of goodness for its own sake and not moved by fear or hope of reward. As Solomon says, "The Lord has done all things for his own sake." For the sake of his own goodness he bestows an abundance of goodness upon the worthy and the unworthy, because he can neither be wearied by wrongdoing nor provoked to painful emotion by human wickedness. He always remains what he is, perfect in goodness and unchanging in nature.

   “The Lord hath made all things for himself,.... This is true of the Lord with respect to the creation of all things by him.

   Everything gathered on Proverbs 16:4→

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