Job 23:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Job 10:13

Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.

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 12:14

If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured his words in my bosom.

Job 23:14

For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.

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—

Psalm 115:3

Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.

Psalm 135:6

Whatever the Lord pleases he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.

Proverbs 19:21

The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it; God has done this so that all should stand in awe before him.

Isaiah 46:10

declaring the outcome from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, “My purpose shall stand, and I will fulfill my intention,”

Isaiah 46:11

calling a bird of prey from the east, the man for my purpose from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have planned, and I will do it.

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?”

Romans 9:19

You will say to me then, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”

James 1:17

Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.