Then Lavan and Betu'el answered, *The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can't speak to you bad or good.
Acts 5:39 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if it is of God, you will not be able to stop or overthrow or destroy them; you might even be found fighting against God! American Standard Version (1901) but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God. Common English Bible If it originates with God, you won’t be able to stop them. Instead, you would actually find yourselves fighting God!” The council was convinced by his reasoning. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, if it is of God, you will not be able to break it, and perhaps you might be found to have fought against God." And they agreed with him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God. And they consented to him. |
Then Lavan and Betu'el answered, *The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can't speak to you bad or good.
In times past, when Sha'ul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Yisra'el: and the LORD said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Yisra'el, and you shall be prince over Yisra'el.
Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Yisra'el: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of the LORD, and returned and went their way, according to the word of the LORD.
Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Yisra'el.
When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?*
Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, *What are you making?* or your work, *He has no hands?*
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or tell him, What do you?
I also tell you that you are Kefa, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of She'ol will not prevail against it.
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who was I, that I could withstand God?*
A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Perushim part stood up, and contended, saying, *We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!*
They weren't able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
*You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
He said, *Who are you, Lord?* The Lord said, *I am Yeshua, whom you are persecuting.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.