If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
Parallel translations
- WEB If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
- BSB If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop 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 9:12–13Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
- Rev 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
- Job 12:14Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
- Job 38:8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
- Job 9:4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
- Ps 31:8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
- Job 5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
- Isa 41:27The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
- Job 34:29When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
- Dan 4:35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
- Deut 32:30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
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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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