Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

If He snatches something, who can stop Him?
Who can ask Him, “What are You doing?”

New American Standard Bible

“Were He to snatch away, who could restrain Him?
Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

King James Version

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

International Standard Version

Indeed, if he snatches someone away, who could restrain him? Who can say to him, "What are you doing?'

A Conservative Version

Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?

American Standard Version

Behold, he seizeth the prey , who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

Amplified


“Behold, He snatches away; who can restrain or turn Him back?
Who will say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Bible in Basic English

If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

Darby Translation

Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

Julia Smith Translation

Behold, he will catch and who shall turn him? and who shall say to him, What wilt thou do?

King James 2000

Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What do you?

Lexham Expanded Bible

{If} he would snatch away, who could turn him? Who could say to him, 'What are you doing?'

Modern King James verseion

Behold, He takes away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If he be hasty to take anything away, who will make him restore it again? Who will say unto him, 'What doest thou?'

NET Bible

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, 'What are you doing?'

New Heart English Bible

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

The Emphasized Bible

Lo! he snatcheth away, who can bring it back? Who shall say unto him, What wouldst thou do?

Webster

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What doest thou?

World English Bible

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, 'What dost Thou?'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חתף 
Chathaph 
Usage: 1

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

him who will say

Usage: 0

Context Readings

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

11 If He passes by me, I wouldn’t see Him;
if He goes right by, I wouldn’t recognize Him.
12 If He snatches something, who can stop Him?
Who can ask Him, “What are You doing?”
13 God does not hold back His anger;
Rahab’s assistants cringe in fear beneath Him!


Cross References

Job 11:10

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

Isaiah 45:9

“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker—
one clay pot among many.
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?

Job 23:13

But He is unchangeable; who can oppose Him?
He does what He desires.

Jeremiah 18:6

“House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.

Job 33:13

Why do you take Him to court
for not answering anything a person asks?

Job 34:29

But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty?
When He hides His face, who can see Him?
Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing,
and He does what He wants with the army of heaven
and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can hold back His hand
or say to Him, “What have You done?”

Matthew 11:26

Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.

Matthew 20:15

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my business? Are you jealous because I’m generous?’

Romans 9:18-20

So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden.

Romans 11:34

For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been His counselor?

Ephesians 1:11

We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

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