Job 9:12
If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, “Why did you do so?”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
In Context
11If he approaches me, I will not see him; if he departs, I will not understand.
13God, whose wrath no one is able to resist, and under whom they bend who carry the world,
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:10And the king said: “What is it to me and to all of you, O sons of Zeruiah? Permit him, so that he may curse. For the Lord has commanded him to curse David. And who is the one who would dare to say, ‘Why has he done so?’”
Job 11:10If he overturns all things, or packs them together, who will contradict him?
Job 33:13Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?
Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who contradicts his Maker, a mere shard from an earthen vessel! Should the clay say to the potter, “What are you making?” or, “Your work is not made by your hands?”
Daniel 4:32And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him. For he acts according to his own will, with the inhabitants of the earth just as with the holy inhabitants of heaven. And there is no one who can resist his hand, or say to him, “Why have you done this?”
Matthew 11:26Yes, Father, for this was pleasing before you.
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 →