Job 9:12
If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart I shall not understand.
13God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:10And the king said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia? Let him alone and let him curse: for the Lord hath bid him curse David: and who is he that shall dare say, why hath he done so?
Job 11:10If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?
Job 33:13Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?
Isaiah 45:9Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?
Daniel 4:32And they shall cast thee out from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with cattle and wild beasts: thou shalt eat grass like an ox, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Matthew 11:26Yea, Father; for so hath it seemed good 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 →