Job 9:12
Good News Translation
He takes what he wants, and no one can stop him; no one dares ask him, "What are you doing?"

New Revised Standard Version
He snatches away; who can stop him? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Contemporary English Version
And if he grabs something, who can stop him or raise a question?

New American Bible
Should he seize me forcibly, who can resist? Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?

he taketh

Job 23:13 For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.

Job 34:29 For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?

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Ephesians 1:11 In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

hinder him.

Job 11:10 If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?

What

Job 33:13 Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?

Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?

Jeremiah 18:6 Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Matthew 11:26 Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.

Matthew 20:15 Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?

Romans 9:18-20 Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he hardeneth. . . .

Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
11If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart, I shall not understand. 12If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?13God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.…
Cross References
Romans 9:19
Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?

Job 10:7
And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

Job 11:10
If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?

Ecclesiastes 8:4
And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so?

Isaiah 43:13
And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away?

Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?

Daniel 4:35


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