Job 11:10
If he sweep on, or shut up, or call together, Who then shall hinder him?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
In Context
9Longer than the earth, is the measure thereof, and broader than the sea.
11For, he, knoweth men of falsity, and seeth iniquity, and him that doth not diligently consider.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:30Oh! how would one, have chased, a thousand! And, two, put, ten thousand to flight,—Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And, Yahweh, had abandoned them;
Job 9:4Wise in heart, and alert in vigour, What man hath hardened himself against him, and prospered!
Job 12:14Lo! He pulleth down, and it cannot be built, He closeth up over a man, and it cannot be opened:
Job 38:8Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
Isaiah 14:27For, Yahweh of hosts, hath purposed,—And who shall frustrate? And, his, is the hand outstretched, And who shall turn it back?
Daniel 4:35And, all the inhabitants of the earth, as nothing, are accounted, and, according to his own pleasure, dealeth he—with the army of the heavens, and the inhabitants of the earth,—and none there is who can smite upon his hand, or say to him, What hast thou done?
Matthew Henry on Job 11:8-13
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? 11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Zophar here speaks very good… Read the whole commentary →