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Job 11:10
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If he passes by and throws someone in prisonor convenes a court, who can stop him?
If he passes by, or confines, Or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?
"If God comes along and puts you in prison or calls you into court, no one can stop him.
If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?
"If God passes by or arrests, Or calls an assembly [of judgment], who can restrain Him? [If He is against a man, who can call Him to account for it?]
"If He passes by or apprehends people, Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?
If he passes by, or confines, Or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?
If He sweeps by or shuts up,Or calls an assembly, who can turn Him around?
If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
If God puts you in prison or drags you to court, what can you do?
If he passes through, puts in prison and assembles [for judgment], who can prevent him?
If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
If he should pass by, and besiege, or should cause men to die, who could hinder him?
If God arrests you and brings you to trial, who is there to stop him?
"If he passes through and imprisons someone and summons the assembly, then who can hinder him?
If He passes through and shuts up, or gathers together, then who can turn Him back?
Though he turne all thinges vpsyde downe, close them in, or thrust the together, who darre check him therfore?
If he pass through, and shut up, And all unto judgment, then who can hinder him?
If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?
If He pass by, and shut up, or gather in, then who can hinder Him?
If he cut off, and shut vp, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
Though he turne all thinges vpsyde downe, close them in, gather them together, who will turne hym from his purpose?
And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What hast thou done?
If he pass through, and shut up, and call unto judgment, then who can hinder him?
If he distrieth alle thingis, ethir dryueth streitli `in to oon, who schal ayenseie hym? Ethir who may seie to hym, Whi doest thou so?
If he passes through, and shuts up, And calls to judgment, then who can hinder him?
If he shall cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
"If He passes by, imprisons, and gathers to judgment, Then who can hinder Him?
If God comes and puts a person in prison or calls the court to order, who can stop him?
If He passes by, puts a man in prison, or calls him to trial, who can stop Him?
If he passes through, and imprisons, and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him?
If he sweep on, or shut up, or call together, Who then shall hinder him?
If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?
If he passes through, and imprisons, and calls to judgment, who can hinder him?
If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?
"If He passes by or shuts up, Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If he cut off: or, If he make a change, Job 5:18, Job 9:4, Job 9:12, Job 9:13, Job 12:14, Job 34:29, Isaiah 41:27, Daniel 4:35
shut up: Job 38:8, Deuteronomy 32:30, Psalms 31:8, Revelation 3:7
hinder him: Heb. turn him away
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:2 - Who can stand 2 Chronicles 7:13 - If I shut up heaven Job 23:13 - who can Psalms 88:5 - cut Psalms 95:4 - In Ecclesiastes 7:13 - who
Cross-References
After Peleg was born, Eber lived another 430 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters.
After Serug was born, Reu lived another 207 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters.
After Serug was 30 years old, his son Nahor was born.
This is the history of Terah's family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If he cut off,.... The horns, power, dominion, and authority of the wicked; or the spirits of princes, or kingdoms and states, whole nations, as he did the seven nations of Canaan; or families, as Job's, his servants, and his children; or particular persons, by diseases, or by judgments, by famine, sword, and pestilence; there is none can hinder him; he will do what he pleases: or, as others render it, "if he changes" l; if he makes revolutions in governments, changes in families, and in the estates of men, as in Job's; or changes men's countenances by death, and sends them out of time into eternity, there is no opposing him: or, "if he passes through" m, as the word is sometimes used; see Isaiah 8:8; if he comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth, and goes through a kingdom and nation, making or suffering to be made devastations everywhere, as he went through the land of Egypt and smote all the firstborn in it, there is no stopping him: or, "if he passes on" n, or "from" hence, or goes away; see 1 Samuel 11:3; or departs from a people or particular person, even his own people, and hides his face from them, and is long, at least as they think, before he returns; who can behold him, or find him out, or cause him to show himself? see Job 23:3; or, "if he subverts" o and overturns things, or should reduce the world and all things in it to a chaos, as at the deluge, or as he overturned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, or should set on fire the whole course of nature, and burn up the whole world and all in it, and reduce it to ashes, as he will; there is none can stay his hand, and obstruct him in his designs and measures:
and shut up; should he do so; shut up in a civil sense, either in a prison, as Gersom, or in the hands of an enemy, by giving them unto them, to be enclosed and straitened by them, there is none can deliver;
Psalms 31:8; or to shut them up as he did Noah in the ark, by protecting them by his power and providence, and so appear to be on their side, and for them; who then can be against them? or what does it signify if any are, if the Lord shuts them up and keeps them close? or in a spiritual sense, if he concludes men in sin, and shuts them up in unbelief, and under the law; who but himself can set them free? or, if good men are shut up in their frames, and straitened in their souls, that they cannot come forth in the lively exercise of grace, and free discharge of duty; there is no opening for them till he pleases,
Psalms 88:8;
or gather together, then who can hinder him? either gathers them into one place, in a civil sense; or in a gracious manner, with great mercies and everlasting kindness to himself, to have communion with him; to his son, to participate of the blessings of his grace, and to his church and people, to enjoy all spiritual privileges with them; or, gathers men at and by death; see Job 34:14; and as he will gather them at the last day, even all nations, before him, the tares, and burn them and his wheat, and put them into his garner; and when he does any and every of these things, who can hinder him or turn him back from doing what he pleases: Job says much the same in Job 9:12; the Targum is,
"if he passes through and shuts up the heavens with clouds, and gathers armies, who can turn him back?''
l אם יחלוף "si permutet proprie", Mercerus, Heb. "si mutabit locum", Piscator. m "Si transmeabit", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "si pervadat", Cocceius; "si transiverit", Michaelis. n "Si abierit", Schmidt. o "Si subverterit omnia", V. L.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If he cut off - Margin, “Make a change.” But neither of these phrases properly expresses the sense of the original. The whole image here is probably that of arresting a criminal and bringing him to trial, and the language is taken from the mode of conducting a prosecution. The word rendered “cut off” - יחלף yachâlop, from חלף châlaph - means properly to pass along; to pass on; then to pass against anyone, to rush on, to assail; and in a remote sense in the Piel and the Hiphil, to cause to pass on or away, that is, to change. This is the sense expressed in the margin. The idea is not that of cutting off, but is that of making a rush upon a man, for the purpose of arresting him and bringing him to trial. There are frequent references to such trials in the book of Job. The Chaldee renders this, “if he pass on and shut up the heavens with clouds” - but the paraphrasist evidently did not understand the passage.
And shut up - That is, imprison or detain with a view to trial. Some such detention is always practiced of necessity before trial.
Or gather together - Gather together the parties for trial; or rather call the individual into court for trial. The word קהל qâhal means properly to call together, to convoke, as a people; and is used to denote the custom of assembling the people for a trial - or, as we would say, to “call the court,” which is now the office of a crier.
Then who can hinder him? - Margin, “Who can turn him away?” He has all power, and no one can resist him. No one can deliver the criminal from his hands. Zophar here is in fact repeating in another form what Job had himself said (Job 9:3 ff), and the sentiment seems to be proverbial. The idea here is, that if God should call a man into judgment, and hold him guilty, he could neither answer nor resist him. God is so great; he so intimately knows the human heart; he has so thorough an acquaintance with all our past sins, that we cannot hope to answer him or escape. Zophar argues on this principle: “God holds you to be guilty. He is punishing you accordingly. You do not feel it so, or suppose that you deserve all this. But he sees your heart, and knows all your life. If he holds you to be guilty, it is so. You cannot answer him, and you should so regard it, and submit.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 11:10. If he cut off — As he is unlimited and almighty, he cannot be controlled. He will do whatsoever he pleases; and he is pleased with nothing but what is right. Who then will dare to find fault? Perhaps Zophar may refer to Job's former state, his losses and afflictions. If he cut off, as he has done, thy children; if he shut up, as he has done, thyself by this sore disease; or gather together hostile bands to invade thy territories and carry away thy property; who can hinder him? He is sovereign, and has a right to dispose of his own property as he pleases.
