Job 9:12

Translations

Modern

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Traditional

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

Literal

Behold, He snatches away, and who will turn Him back? Who shall say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Latin

Si repente interroget, quis respondebit ei? vel quis dicere potest: Cur ita facis?

Original

Hebrew

English

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Notes

Job 9:1–35

Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case.

It includes:

A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32).
The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20).
A "mediator" (9:33–34).
A question of accusation (9:12).
A legal sentence (9:22).
A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
Job 11:10
If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
Job 23:13
But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
Daniel 4:35
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
Romans 11:34
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
Job 34:29
But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
Jeremiah 18:6
“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
Job 33:13
Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
Matthew 20:15
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
Ephesians 1:11
In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
Romans 9:18–20
Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

Glossary

Book of Job

Topics

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Job 9:12

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