Job 23:13

For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever is soul hath desired, that hath he done.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

In Context

12I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

14And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him.

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Cross References

Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

Job 10:13Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that thou rememberest all things.

Job 12:14If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a. man, there is none that can open.

Psalms 115:3The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Proverbs 19:21There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.

Ecclesiastes 3:14I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.

Matthew Henry on Job 23:9-13

Mystery of Providence. ( b. c. 1520.) 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. 12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more… Read the whole commentary →

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