As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might collect in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

And he said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou showedst me their doings.

Which in his times he will show who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it may tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife to him, If Mordecai is of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou wilt not prevail against him, but wilt surely fall before him.