58 occurrences in 12 translations

'Cannot' in the Bible

I cannot relax or be still;I have no rest, for trouble comes.

Verse ConceptsRest, PhysicalIndividuals TremblingRest

Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey; that's when the lion cubs are scattered.

Verse ConceptsHuntingNo Food

It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:

Verse ConceptsVoices

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sEvil DevicesDeviousnessFrustrationDisappointmentSuccess And Hard Work

I cannot bring myself to touch them; food like this makes me sick."

Verse ConceptsNot Touching

Since I cannot help myself,the hope for success has been banished from me.

Verse ConceptsHelplessnessPowerlessnessNo Helpdeliverance

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfLipsWhat Sin?

He does great things that cannot be explained, and awesome deeds that cannot be counted.

Verse ConceptsGod Is HolyPower Of God, DescribedUnintelligiblenesspast

If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

Verse ConceptsInsightGod, Invisible

Even if I'm in the right, I cannot answer him. I can only appeal for mercy.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Examples OfJudgesBe Merciful!

If I am wicked, woe to me!And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.I am filled with shameand aware of my affliction.

Verse ConceptsLifting HeadsSin Clings To The Sinner

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Verse ConceptsGod DestroyingImprisonmentsrebuilding

Should he argue in talk [that] is not profitable or [in] words with which he cannot do good?

Verse ConceptsVain TalkUseless Words

{He cannot trust that he will return} from darkness, and he himself is destined for [the] sword.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesKilled With The Sword

Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.

Verse ConceptsMockerymockers

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

“He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsDisappearanceLike A Dreamflying

“He returns what he has attainedAnd cannot swallow it;As to the riches of his trading,He cannot even enjoy them.

Verse ConceptsDrawbacks To Riches

[As for] me, [is] my complaint for human beings? And if [so], why cannot I be impatient?

Verse ConceptsComplaintsDanger From MenComplaining

or darkness, so you cannot see,and a flood of water covers you.

Verse ConceptsOvertaken By Darkness

Clouds veil Him so that He cannot see,as He walks on the circle of the sky.”

Verse ConceptsClouds, God's Presence

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

Verse ConceptseastWestGod, Invisible

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Verse ConceptsNorthSouthTurning To Right And Left

“A mother will forget him;The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered.And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].

Verse ConceptsBrokennessWombMaggotsForgetting PeopleHarming TreesPurgatoryworms

Yet he carries off [the] tyrants by his strength; [if] he rises up, then he cannot be certain of life.

No man can know its value,since it cannot be found in the land of the living.

Verse ConceptsIgnorant Of FactsValue

It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

Verse ConceptsBenefits Of WisdomBuying God's GiftValueweightsales

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Verse ConceptsPrecious StonesBenefits Of Wisdombalance

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

Verse ConceptsCrystalsMineralsPrecious StonesTransparencyBenefits Of WisdomUnique Things

Topaz from Cush cannot compare with it,and it cannot be valued in pure gold.

Verse ConceptsEthiopiaPrecious StonesAfricaBenefits Of WisdomUnique Things

I am churning within and cannot rest;days of suffering confront me.

Verse ConceptsStressBowelsIndigestion

For I'm terrified of what calamity God may have in store for me; and I cannot endure his grandeur."

Verse ConceptsThose Frightened Of Godterrorism

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

"So that you cannot claim, "We have found wisdom!' let God do the rebuking, not man;

Verse ConceptsFalse Wisdom

"They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

Verse ConceptsPeople Being Silent

He cannot stand his food, and he has no desire for appetizing food.

Verse ConceptsAbhor

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

Verse ConceptsWasteThin Bodies

Have I lied concerning the justice that I deserve? My wound is incurable, though transgression cannot be attributed to me.'

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfPlea Of Innocence

Teach me what I cannot see;if I have done wrong, I won’t do it again.”

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Prayer DuringGod TeachingPositive Thinking

“Your wickedness affects only a man such as you,And your righteousness affects only a son of man [but it cannot affect God, who is sovereign].

Verse ConceptsActing For Oneselfwickednesshurting

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Verse ConceptsGreed, Believers' Response Togreatness

Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Of The Innocent

Now men cannot even look at the sunwhen it is in the skies,after a wind has swept through and cleared them away.

Verse ConceptsSkySunSunshineclouds

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfJusticeNot FindingGod Doing RightDoing RightGod Being Outside Of Creation

He charges ahead with trembling rage;he cannot stand still at the trumpet’s sound.

Verse ConceptsNot Being StillNot Stilldistance

I have spoken once, but I cannot answer; twice, but I will say no more."

Verse ConceptsSpeaking Again

I cannot be silent about his limbs,his power, and his graceful proportions.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of Animals

They are close {to one another}-- even [the] air cannot come between them.

Verse ConceptsAir

They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

Verse ConceptsJoining Flesh And Bones

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

Verse ConceptsJoining Flesh And Bonesmuscles

The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

Verse ConceptsChaffSlingsThrowing Stones

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