Job 9:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 11:10 : 10 If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”
  • Job 23:13 : 13 But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?
  • Job 34:29 : 29 But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
  • Jer 18:6 : 6 “I, the LORD, say:‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him,‘What have you done?’
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
  • Rom 11:34 : 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will
  • Rom 9:18-20 : 18 So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden. 19 You will say to me then,“Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?” 20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”
  • Matt 11:26 : 26 Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

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  • Job 11:10
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    10If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

  • Job 9:10-11
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    10he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.

    11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

  • Job 23:13-14
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    13But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

    14For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

  • Job 36:22-23
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    22Indeed, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

    23Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?

  • Job 9:3-5
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    3If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

    4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?

    5He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

  • Job 12:14-15
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    14If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

    15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • Job 33:13
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    13Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

  • Job 9:13
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    13God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.

  • Job 34:29
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    29But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

  • Job 9:19
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    19If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say,‘Who will summon me?’

  • Dan 4:35
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    35All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him,‘What have you done?’

  • Job 24:22
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    22But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

  • Job 41:10-11
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    10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

    11(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

  • Job 34:13
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    13Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

  • Job 9:23-24
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    23If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.

    24If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

  • Job 12:19-20
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    19He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the potentates.

    20He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

  • Job 14:3
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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Rom 9:19
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    19You will say to me then,“Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

  • Job 23:8-9
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    8The Inaccessibility and Power of God“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.

    9In the north when he is at work, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I see no trace of him.

  • Job 12:9
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    9Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this,

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.

  • Job 21:31
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    31No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

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    37מ(Mem) Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?

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    5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

  • Job 12:24
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    24He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

  • Job 13:19
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    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

  • Job 5:9
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    9He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;

  • Job 8:18
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    18If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’

  • Eccl 8:3-4
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    3Do not rush out of the king’s presence in haste– do not delay when the matter is unpleasant, for he can do whatever he pleases.

    4Surely the king’s authority is absolute; no one can say to him,“What are you doing?”

  • Job 32:13
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    13So do not say,‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

  • Job 37:12
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    12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

  • Job 13:13
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    13“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

  • Job 9:34
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    34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

  • Job 21:22
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    22Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

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    10The Futile Way Life Works Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.

  • Job 14:20
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    20You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.

  • Job 22:17
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    17They were saying to God,‘Turn away from us,’ and‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

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    1The Apparent Indifference of God“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

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    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?