Job 9:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² He snatches away; who can stop him? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Behold, He snatches away; who can hinder or turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

Common English Bible

¹² If he seizes, who can bring back? Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, "Why did you do so?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? Or, who can say: Why dost thou so?

Job 9:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 16:10

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 10:7

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?

Job 11:10

If he passes through and imprisons and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him?

Job 23:13

But he stands alone, and who can dissuade him? What he desires, that he does.

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of my words’?

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—

Ecclesiastes 8:4

For the word of the king is powerful, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Isaiah 43:13

Indeed, since that day I am he; there is no one who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can hinder it?

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to those who strive with their Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”?

Jeremiah 18:6

Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done? says the Lord. Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Daniel 4:32

You shall be driven away from human society, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you have learned that the Most High has sovereignty over the kingdom of mortals and gives it to whom he will.”

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

Matthew 11:26

yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

Matthew 20:15

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Romans 11:34

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will,