Job 9:12

If he would take away, who shall turn him back? 1 Or who shall say to him, What hast thou done? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

In Context

11If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: 1 If he should pass by me, neither thus have I known it. 1

13For if he has turned away his anger, 1 The whales under heaven have stooped under him. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 16:10And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? even let him alone, and so let him curse, for the Lord has told him to curse David: and who shall say, Why hast thou done thus?

Job 11:10And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What hast thou done? 1

Job 33:13But thou sayest, Why has he not heard every word of my cause? 1

Isaiah 45:9What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

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 →

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