'Stops' in the Bible
“God seals (brings to a standstill, stops) [by severe weather] the hand of every man,That all men [whom He has made] may know His work [that is, His sovereign power and their subjection to it].
They have venom like the venom of a snake,like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,
A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poorWill cry out himself and not be answered.
Like one who grabs a dog by the ears [and is likely to be bitten]Is he who, passing by, stops to meddle with a dispute that is none of his business.
Without wood, the fire goes out. Without a gossip, contention stops.
The gaiety of tambourines ceases,The noise of revelers stops,The gaiety of the harp ceases.
The one who lives righteouslyand speaks rightly,who refuses gain from extortion,whose hand never takes a bribe,who stops his ears from listening to murderous plotsand shuts his eyes to avoid endorsing evil—
No one stops to think. No one has the knowledge or understanding to think yes to think! "Half of it I burned in the fire. I even baked bread on its coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And am I about to make detestable things from what is left? Am I about to bow down to blocks of wood?"
You have been the object of Israel's hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?
But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.