Job 12:8-10, “Speak to the earth or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.” Thus Job’s words begin our journey into the providence of God as metaphorically and anthropomorphically represented by the hand of God. Job says that God’s hand, providence, is the reason for the existence and sustenance of all things and all life. As Paul told the Athenians, “In Him we live and move and have our being.”

Psalm 95:3-5, “For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.” The world and all in it exist because of the will, the providence, the plan, the fiat, the hand of God!

Isaiah 66:1-2, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.”

Acts 7:49-51, "'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? Did not my hand make all these things?'”

Hebrews 1:10-11, "And, "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment…” (See also Psalm 119:73-74 Isaiah 41:19-21)