Job 9:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’”
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“If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 9:12 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 16:10But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”
- Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- Job 11:10If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
- Job 23:13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
- Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
- Job 34:29But 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,
- Isaiah 45:9Woe 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’?
- Jeremiah 18:6“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.
- Daniel 4:32You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”
- Daniel 4:35All 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?’”
- Matthew 11:26Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
- Matthew 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
- Romans 9:18Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
- Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
- Ephesians 1:11In 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,
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