Job 9:12
Behold, He snatches away, who brings it back? Who says to Him, What [are] You doing?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
In Context
11Behold, He goes over by me, and I do not see, || And He passes on, and I do not attend to it.
13God does not turn back His anger, || Proud helpers have bowed under Him.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:10And the king says, “And what do I [have to do] with you, O sons of Zeruiah? For let him revile; even because YHWH has said to him, Revile David; and who says, Why have You done so?”
Job 11:10If He passes on, and shuts up, and assembles, || Who then reverses it?
Job 33:13Why have you striven against Him, || When [for] all His matters He does not answer?
Isaiah 45:9Woe [to] him who is striving with his Former || (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Does clay say to its Framer, What [are] you doing? And your work, He has no hands?
Daniel 4:32and from men they are driving you away, and your dwelling [is] with the beast of the field, they cause you to eat the herb as oxen, and pass over you seven times, until you know that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He wills He gives it.”
Matthew 11:26Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure 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 →