Job 9:12
Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
In Context
11Lo, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He also passes on, but I do not perceive him.
13God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:10And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because LORD has said to him, Curse David, who then shall say, Why have thou done so?
Job 11:10If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?
Job 33:13Why do thou strive against him because he does not give of any of his matters?
Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands?
Daniel 4:32And thou shall be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. Thou shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of me
Matthew 11:26Yea, Father, because this way it was done pleasing in thy sight.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:2-14
Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth… Read the whole commentary →