'Unable' in the Bible

And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings.

Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who he was.

And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast.

Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.

And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.

And the Lord was with Judah; and he took the hill-country for his heritage; but he was unable to make the people of the valley go out, for they had war-carriages of iron.

And David took Saul's sword and put the band round him over the metal coat, and was unable to go forward; for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, It is not possible for me to go out with these, for I am not used to them. So David took them off.

So Jeroboam's wife did so, and got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was unable to see, because he was very old.

That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,

Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.

Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;

And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

Truly, the Lord's hand has not become short, so that he is unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:

See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything so hard that I am unable to do it?

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.

Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him.

And after he had said these words to me, I kept my face turned to the earth and was unable to say anything.

Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?