'Restrains' in the Bible
“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
“They break up my path,They profit from my destruction;No one restrains them.
“After it, His voice roars;He thunders with the voice of His majesty,And He does not restrain His lightning [against His adversaries] when His voice is heard.
When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable,But he who restrains his lips is wise.
The intelligent person restrains his words,and one who keeps a cool headis a man of understanding.
He who would restrain her restrains the wind,And grasps oil with his right hand.
For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord of hosts is His name.
Blessed is the one who does this, and the person that holds it fast, who observes the Sabbath without profaning it, and restrains his hands from practicing any evil.
“Cursed be the one who does the Lord’s work negligently,And cursed be the one who restrains his sword from blood.
And you know what currently restrains him, so that he will be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only there is he who restrains now until he be gone,