Job 9:12 “If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are Yo…”

Job 9:12

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

World English Bible

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

American Standard Version

Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

Geneva Bible 1599

Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

Darby Translation

Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, 'What dost Thou?'

Bible in Basic English

If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

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Cross references

“he taketh”

Job 23:13 Job 34:29 Daniel 4:35 Ephesians 1:11

Job 23:13 · BSB

But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

Job 34:29 · BSB

But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

Daniel 4:35 · BSB

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

Ephesians 1:11 · BSB

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

“hinder him”

Job 11:10

Job 11:10 · BSB

If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

“What”

Isaiah 45:9 Romans 11:34 Job 33:13 Jeremiah 18:6 Matthew 20:15 Matthew 11:26

Isaiah 45:9 · BSB

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

Romans 11:34 · BSB

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

Job 33:13 · BSB

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Jeremiah 18:6 · BSB

“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

Matthew 20:15 · BSB

Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Matthew 11:26 · BSB

Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.

13God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.

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