“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
⛓ Read Job 42 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Job's confession 'I know that you can do all things, and no purpose of yours can be thwarted' directly parallels 'what is impossible with men is possible with God.' This is a near-formulaic OT affirmation of divine omnipotence that Luke deploys at the climax of the rich-ruler episode. Strong volume and coherence.
High confidence'I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted' is a near-formulaic source for 'all things are possible with God.' Job's confession of God's unbounded power matches Jesus' answer to 'who then can be saved?' The omnipotence formula recurs and coheres.
Medium confidenceJob's confession 'I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be withheld' closely matches 'with God all things are possible.'
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Job's confession, 'I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted' (Job 42:2 LXX), is a further scriptural articulation of the impossibility-with-God theme Gabriel invokes. A coherent supporting echo of divine omnipotence.
Medium confidence