If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
Parallel translations
- WEB If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
- KJV If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
- NKJV “IfHe passes by, imprisons, and gathers to judgment, Then who can hinder Him?
- NASB “If He passes by or apprehends people, Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?
- NLT If God comes and puts a person in prison or calls the court to order, who can stop him?
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Quick answer
If God arrests, imprisons, or convenes a court, no one can oppose Him. Zophar stresses God's irresistible sovereignty.
Overview
Zophar affirms that God acts with unchallengeable authority to seize, confine, or judge as He wills. The doctrine is true: God's sovereign power cannot be thwarted (Isaiah 14:27; Daniel 4:35). Rightly understood, this sovereignty is the believer's comfort, for the unstoppable God works all things for the good of those who love Him (Romans 8:28).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Job 9:12–13If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
- Rev 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
- Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Job 38:8Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
- Job 9:4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
- Ps 31:8You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
- Job 5:18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Isa 41:27I was the first to tell Zion: ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news.
- Job 34:29But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
- Dan 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- Deut 32:30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
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Christ at the center
Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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