Job 11:10

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

8Such knowledge is higher than the heavens— and who are you? It is deeper than the underworld— what do you know? 9It is broader than the earth and wider than the sea. If God comes and puts a person in prison or calls the court to order, who can stop him? 11For he knows those who are false, and he takes note of all their sins. 12An empty-headed person won’t become wise any more than a wild donkey can bear a human child.

Job 11:10 word by word

אִם־יַחֲלֹ֥ף וְיַסְגִּ֑יר וְ֝יַקְהִ֗יל וּמִ֣י יְשִׁיבֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• If he cut offחָלַףchâlaph · to passH2498
• and shut upסָגַרsâgar · to shutH5462
• or gather togetherקָהַלqâhal · to gatherH6950
• then who can hinderשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725

Cross-references for Job 11:10

• Job 5:18For though he wounds, he also bandages. He strikes, but his hands also heal.
• Job 9:4For God is so wise and so mighty. Who has ever challenged him successfully?
• Job 12:14What he destroys cannot be rebuilt. When he puts someone in prison, there is no escape.
• Job 34:29But if he chooses to remain quiet, who can criticize him? When he hides his face, no one can find him, whether an individual or a nation.
• Isaiah 41:27I was the first to tell Zion, ‘Look! Help is on the way!’ I will send Jerusalem a messenger with good news.
• Daniel 4:35All the people of the earth are nothing compared to him. He does as he pleases among the angels of heaven and among the people of the earth. No one can stop him or say to him, ‘What do you mean by doing these things?’
• Job 38:8“Who kept the sea inside its boundaries as it burst from the womb,
• Deuteronomy 32:30How could one person chase a thousand of them, and two people put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?
• Psalms 31:8You have not handed me over to my enemies but have set me in a safe place.
• Revelation 3:7“Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia. This is the message from the one who is holy and true, the one who has the key of David. What he opens, no one can close; and what he closes, no one can open:

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

Topics related to Job 11:10

• Afflictions and Adversities

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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