Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“If He passes by or shuts up,
Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?

King James Version

If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

Holman Bible

If He passes by and throws someone in prison
or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

International Standard Version

"If he bypasses, or imprisons, or convenes a court, who can stop him?

A Conservative Version

If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?

American Standard Version

If he pass through, and shut up, And all unto judgment, then who can hinder him?

Amplified


“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?]

Bible in Basic English

If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

Darby Translation

If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?

Julia Smith Translation

If he shall pass on, and shut up, and gather together, who shall turn him back.

King James 2000

If he cuts off, and shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"If he passes through and imprisons someone {and summons the assembly}, then who can hinder him?

Modern King James verseion

If He passes through and shuts up, or gathers together, then who can turn Him back?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Though he turn all things upside down, close them in, or thrust them together, who dare check him therefore?

NET Bible

If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

New Heart English Bible

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

The Emphasized Bible

If he sweep on, or shut up, or call together, Who then shall hinder him?

Webster

If he shall cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

World English Bible

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

Youngs Literal Translation

If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If he cut off
חלף 
Chalaph 
Usage: 28

and shut up
סגר 
Cagar 
Usage: 93

קהל 
Qahal 
Usage: 38

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

Context Readings

God Can Do As He Pleases

9 Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea. 10 “If He passes by or shuts up,
Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?
11 For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?

Cross References

Job 9:12-13

Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?'

Job 12:14

If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

Revelation 3:7

"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?

Job 5:18

For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength --who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?--

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--

Job 38:8

"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,

Psalm 31:8

and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

Isaiah 41:27

I was the first to say to Zion, "Behold, here they are!" and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good news.

Daniel 4:35

all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?"

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