Then Laban and Bethuel answered, and they said, “The matter proceeds from Adonai. We cannot speak to you bad or good.
Acts 5:39 - Tree of Life Version but if it is of God, you will not be able to stop them. You might even be found fighting against God.” They took his advice, 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 Laban and Bethuel answered, and they said, “The matter proceeds from Adonai. We cannot speak to you bad or good.
Even before, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and back. Also Adonai said to you, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel and be ruler over Israel.’”
Thus says Adonai: you are not to go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Turn back every man to his own house, for this matter is from Me.” So they heeded the word of Adonai. They turned and went back, according to the word of Adonai.
Whom did you taunt and blaspheme? Against whom did you raise your voice and haughtily lift up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
“But if He is quiet, who can condemn Him? If He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He is over a nation and an individual alike,
There is no wisdom, there is no understanding, there is no counsel— against Adonai.
From eternity, I am He. None can deliver from My hand. I act, and who can reverse it?”
Oy , to one who quarrels with his Maker, like a pot among the pots of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, “What have you made?” Or does your work say, “It has no handles”?
declaring the end from the beginning, from ancient time, what is yet to come, saying, “My purpose will stand, and I will accomplish all that I please.”
And I also tell you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My community; and the gates of Sheol will not overpower it.
for I Myself will give you speech and wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute.
Therefore if God gave them the same gift as also to us after we put our trust in the Lord Messiah Yeshua, who was I to stand in God’s way?”
Then there was a great uproar. Some of the Torah scholars of the Pharisees’ party stood up and protested sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man! What if a spirit or angel has spoken to him?”
But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Ruach by whom he was speaking.
“O you stiff-necked people! You uncircumcised of heart and ears! You always resist the Ruach ha-Kodesh; just as your fathers did, you do as well.
“Who are You, Lord?” Saul said. “I am Yeshua—whom you are persecuting.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?