12Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
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Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
When 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:
And 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?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)Bildad began with a rebuke to Job for talking so much, Job 8:2. Job makes no answer to that, though it would have been easy enough to retort it upon himself; but in what he next lays down as his principle, that God never perverts judgment, Job agrees with him: I know it is so of a truth , Job 9:2. Note, We should be ready to own how far we agree with those with whom we dispute, and should not slig…
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