Job 9:12

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?hinder…: Heb. turn him away?

WEB

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

ASV

Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

LSV

Behold, He snatches away, who brings it back? Who says to Him, What [are] You doing?

YLT

Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, 'What dost Thou?'

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

JPS

Behold, He snatcheth away, who can hinder Him? Who will say unto Him: 'What doest Thou?'

LXXE

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

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WLC

הֵ֣ן יַ֭חְתֹּף מִ֣י יְשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ מִֽי־יֹאמַ֥ר אֵ֝לָ֗יו מַֽה־תַּעֲשֶֽׂה׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν ἀπαλλάξῃ, τίς ἀποστρέψει; ἢ τίς ἐρεῖ αὐτῷ, τί ἐποίησας;

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• Job 11:10If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
• Isaiah 45:9Woe 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 23:13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
• Daniel 4:35All 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 34:29But 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,
• Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
• Matthew 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
• 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.
• Ephesians 1:11In 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 11:26Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
• Romans 9:18–20Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden. One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?” But who are you, O man, to…

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