A. God is infinitely more powerful than weak man:

PSA 8:3. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

PSA 8:4. What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

ISA 40:15. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

ISA 40:17. All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

ISA 40:22. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

DAN 4:35. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

1COR 1:25. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

2CH 20:6. And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

PSA 89:6. For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

B. An honest view of man & his strength:

JOB 14:1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

JOB 14:2. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

JOB 7:1. Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

ISA 40:6. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

ISA 40:7. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

ISA 40:8. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

PSA 90:5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

PSA 90:6. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

PSA 103:15. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

PSA 103:16. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

JAM 1:10. But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

JAM 1:11. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

1PE 1:24. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

1PE 1:25. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

JOB 8:9. (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

PSA 39:5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

PSA 39:6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

PSA 144:3. LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

PSA 144:4. Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

1CH 29:15. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

PSA 62:9. Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

PSA 90:10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

ECC 6:12. For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

PSA 78:39. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

ISA 2:22. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

JAM 4:14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

JAM 4:15. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

PSA 103:14. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

GEN 18:27. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:

ISA 29:5. Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

ISA 29:6. Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

JOB 25:6. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

ISA 40:22. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

JOB 4:18. Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

JOB 4:19. How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

JOB 4:20. They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

ROM 7:18. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

C. God is able to do absolutely anything:

JER 32:27. Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

GEN 18:14. Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

JOB 42:2. I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

PSA 62:11. God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

MAT 19:26. But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

MAT 28:18. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

D. God has total power over man:

JOB 12:10. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

DAN 5:23. But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

JOB 12:13. With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

JOB 12:14. Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

JOB 12:15. Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

JOB 12:16. With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

JOB 12:17. He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

JOB 12:18. He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.

JOB 12:19. He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

JOB 12:20. He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

JOB 12:21. He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

JOB 12:22. He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

JOB 12:23. He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

JOB 12:24. He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

JOB 12:25. They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

PSA 75:6. For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

PSA 75:7. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

PSA 107:33. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

PSA 107:34. A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

PSA 107:35. He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

PSA 107:36. And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

PSA 107:37. And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

PSA 107:38. He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

PSA 107:39. Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

PSA 107:40. He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

ISA 43:13. Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

PSA 115:3. But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

ISA 64:8. But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

ISA 45:9. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

1CH 29:12. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

2CH 20:6. And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

JOB 9:4. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

PSA 104:29. Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

PSA 104:30. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

ISA 40:23. That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.