Job 12:7-9
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7 But now ask the beasts to teach you,
the birds of the air to tell you;
8 Or speak to the earth to instruct you,
and the fish of the sea to inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know
that the hand of God has done this?
Psalm 8:4
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4 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and stars that you set in place—
Psalm 19:2
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2 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the firmament proclaims the works of his hands.(A)
Ben Sira 17:7-9
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7 With knowledge and understanding he filled them;
good and evil he showed them.
8 He put fear of him into their hearts
to show them the grandeur of his works,
9 That they might describe the wonders of his deeds
Isaiah 40:26
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26 Lift up your eyes on high
and see who created[a] these:
He leads out their army and numbers them,
calling them all by name.
By his great might and the strength of his power
not one of them is missing!(A)
Footnotes
- 40:26 Created: see note on Gn 1:1–2:3. By name: for he is their Creator.
Acts 14:17
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17 yet, in bestowing his goodness, he did not leave himself without witness, for he gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, and filled you with nourishment and gladness for your hearts.”(A)
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Acts 17:25-28
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25 nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything. 26 He made from one[a] the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions, 27 so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.(A) 28 For ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’[b] as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’
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- 17:26 From one: many manuscripts read “from one blood.” Fixed…seasons: or “fixed limits to the epochs.”
- 17:28 ‘In him we live and move and have our being’: some scholars understand this saying to be based on an earlier saying of Epimenides of Knossos (6th century B.C.). ‘For we too are his offspring’: here Paul is quoting Aratus of Soli, a third-century B.C. poet from Cilicia.
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