God’s Word Translation
Job 11:10
10If God comes along and imprisons ⌞someone⌟ and then calls a court into session, who can stop him?
Job 11:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
- New International Version (NIV)“If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
- English Standard Version (ESV)If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“If He passes by, imprisons, and gathers to judgment, Then who can hinder Him?
Context of Job 11:10
8⌞God’s wisdom is⌟ higher than heaven. What can you do? It is deeper than ⌞the depths⌟ of hell. What can you know? 9It is longer than the earth and wider than the sea. If God comes along and imprisons ⌞someone⌟ and then calls a court into session, who can stop him? 11He knows who the scoundrels are. And when he sees sin, doesn’t he pay attention to it? 12But an empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born tame.
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אִם־יַחֲלֹ֥ף וְיַסְגִּ֑יר וְ֝יַקְהִ֗יל וּמִ֣י יְשִׁיבֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:10
- Job 5:18God injures, but he bandages. He beats you up, but his hands make you well.
- Job 9:4“God is wise in heart and mighty in power. Who could oppose him and win?
- Job 12:14When he tears ⌞something⌟ down, it cannot be rebuilt. When he puts someone in prison, that person cannot be freed.
- Job 34:29If he keeps quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, who can see him whether it is a nation or a single person?
- Isaiah 41:27I was the first to tell Zion, ‘Look, here they are.’ I gave Jerusalem a messenger with the good news.
- Daniel 4:35Everyone who lives on earth is nothing compared to him. He does whatever he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who live on earth. There is no one who can oppose him or ask him, “What are you doing?”
- Job 38:8“Who shut the sea behind gates when it burst through and came out of the womb,
- Deuteronomy 32:30How could one person chase a thousand or two people make ten thousand flee? Their rock used these people to defeat them and the Lord gave them no help.
- Psalms 31:8You have not handed me over to the enemy. You have set my feet in a place where I can move freely.
- Revelation 3:7“To the messenger of the church in Philadelphia, write: The one who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens ⌞a door⌟ that no one can shut, and who shuts ⌞a door⌟ that no one can open, says:
Commentaries on Job 11:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10If he cut off - As he is unlimited and almighty, he cannot be controlled. He will do whatsoever he pleases; and he is pleased with nothing but what is right. Who then will dare to find fault? Perhaps Zophar may refer to Job's former state, his losses and afflictions. If he cut off, as he has done, thy children; if he shut up, as he has done, thyself by this sore disease; or gather together hostile bands to invade thy territories and carry away thy…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10If he cut off - Margin, “Make a change.” But neither of these phrases properly expresses the sense of the original. The whole image here is probably that of arresting a criminal and bringing him to trial, and the language is taken from the mode of conducting a prosecution. The word rendered “cut off” - יחלף yachâlop from חלף châlaph - means properly to pass along; to pass on; then to pass against anyone, to rush on, to assail; and in a remote sense in…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-12Verses 7-12 Zophar speaks well concerning God and his greatness and glory, concerning man and his vanity and folly. See here what man is; and let him be humbled. God sees this concerning vain man, that he would be wise, would be thought so, though he is born like a wild ass's colt, so unteachable and untameable. Man is a vain creature; empty, so the word is. Yet he is a proud creature, and self-conceited. He would be wise, would be thought so, though he…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. cut off--Rather, as in Job 9:11, "pass over," as a storm; namely, rush upon in anger. shut up--in prison, with a view to trial. gather together--the parties for judgment: hold a judicial assembly; to pass sentence on the prisoners.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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