Job 23:13
“He never changes. There is no one who can [RHQ] stop him from doing what he desires. Whatever he wants to do, he does.
Translation for Translators
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 always obeyed what he [SYN] commanded; I have treasured the words that he has spoken.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God is not a human being. Humans lie, but God never lies. He never changes his mind/thoughts, as humans do. Whatever he has said that he will do, he does.
Job 10:13“'But you ◄kept secret/did not reveal► what you were planning to do to me; I am certain that you were planning to do these things to me.
Job 12:14If he tears something down, no one can rebuild it; if he puts someone in prison, no one can open the prison doors to allow that person to escape.
Psalms 115:3Our God is in heaven, and he does whatever he wants to!
Proverbs 19:21People plan to do many kinds of things, but what will happen is what Yahweh has decided will happen.
Ecclesiastes 3:14I also know that what God does endures forever. No one can add to what God does, and no one can take away from the things that God does. God does those things in order that people would revere him.
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 →