Job 9:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 11:10 : 10 If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
  • Job 23:13 : 13 But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
  • Job 34:29 : 29 ...
  • Jer 18:6 : 6 O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
  • Rom 11:34 : 34 Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
  • Rom 9:18-20 : 18 So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard. 19 But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose? 20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
  • Matt 11:26 : 26 Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 11:10
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    10If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

  • Job 9:10-11
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    10Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number.

    11See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.

  • Job 23:13-14
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    13But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.

    14For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.

  • Job 36:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?

    23Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

  • Job 9:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

    4He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

    5It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

  • Job 12:14-15
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    75%

    14Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

    15Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • Job 33:13
    75%

    13Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

  • Job 9:13
    75%

    13God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

  • Job 34:29
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    29...

  • Job 9:19
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    19If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

  • Dan 4:35
    75%

    35And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

  • Job 24:22
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    22But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

  • Job 41:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

    11Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

  • Job 34:13
    74%

    13Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

  • Job 9:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

    24The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

  • Job 12:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

    20He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

  • Job 14:3
    73%

    3Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • Rom 9:19
    73%

    19But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

  • Job 23:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

    9I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

  • Job 12:9
    73%

    9Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this?

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

  • Job 21:31
    72%

    31Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?

  • Lam 3:37
    72%

    37Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

  • Job 14:5
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    5If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

  • Job 12:24
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    24He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

  • Job 13:19
    71%

    19Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

  • Job 5:9
    71%

    9Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

  • Job 8:18
    71%

    18If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

  • Eccl 8:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.

    4The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?

  • Job 32:13
    71%

    13Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

  • Job 37:12
    71%

    12And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,

  • Job 13:13
    71%

    13Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

  • Job 9:34
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    34Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

  • Job 21:22
    71%

    22Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.

  • Eccl 6:10
    70%

    10That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

  • Job 14:20
    70%

    20You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

  • Job 22:17
    70%

    17Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?

  • Job 24:1
    70%

    1Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?

  • Job 31:14
    70%

    14What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?