Tree of Life Version
Job 23:13
13He is unchangeable, and who can change Him? Whatever His soul desires, He does.
Job 23:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
- New International Version (NIV)“But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? He does whatever he pleases.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“But He is unique, and who can make Him change? And whatever His soul desires, that He does.
Context of Job 23:13
11My foot has held closely to His steps; I have kept to His way and have not strayed. 12I have not departed from the commands of His lips. I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread. He is unchangeable, and who can change Him? Whatever His soul desires, He does. 14For He fulfills the decree against me, and many such things are with Him. 15That is why I am terrified at His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
Read all of Job 23Job 23:13 word by word
וְה֣וּא בְ֭אֶחָד וּמִ֣י יְשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ וְנַפְשׁ֖וֹ אִוְּתָ֣ה וַיָּֽעַשׂ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 23:13
- Job 9:12If He were to snatch away, who could restrain Him? Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’
- Job 11:10“If He comes by and imprisons, or convenes a court, who can prevent Him?
- Job 12:14If He tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; one He imprisons cannot be released.
- Job 34:29“But if He is quiet, who can condemn Him? If He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He is over a nation and an individual alike,
- Numbers 23:19God is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes his mind! Does He speak and then not do it, or promise and not fulfill it?
- Ecclesiastes 1:15What is crooked cannot be made straight. What is missing cannot be counted.
- Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that everything that God does will endure forever. There is no adding to it or taking from it. God has made it so, that they will revere Him.
- Romans 9:19You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”
- James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
- Psalms 115:3Our God is in the heavens— He does whatever pleases Him!
- Psalms 135:6Whatever Adonai pleases, He does, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
- Proverbs 19:21Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but the counsel of Adonai will stand.
- Isaiah 14:24Adonai Tzva’ot has sworn, saying: “Surely, as I thought it, so it will be. As I have purposed, so it will stand.
- Isaiah 46:10declaring the end from the beginning, from ancient time, what is yet to come, saying, “My purpose will stand, and I will accomplish all that I please.”
- Ephesians 1:9He made known to us the mystery of His will, in keeping with His good pleasure that He planned in Messiah.
Commentaries on Job 23:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13But he is in one mind - The original is באחד והוא vehu beechad, and is literally, But he is in one: properly rendered by the Vulgate, Ipse enim solus est. But he is alone. And not badly rendered by Coverdale - It is he himself alone. He has no partner; his designs are his own, they are formed in his infinite wisdom, and none can turn his determinations aside. It is vain, therefore, for man to contend with his Maker. He designs my happiness, and you cannot…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13But he is in one mind - He is unchangeable. He has formed his plans, and no one can divert him from them. Of the truth of this sentiment there can be no dispute. The only difficulty in the case is to see why Job adverted to it here, and how it bears on the train of thought which he was pursuing. The idea seems to be, that God was now accomplishing his eternal purposes in respect to him; that he had formed a plan far back in eternal ages, and that that…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-17Verses 13-17 As Job does not once question but that his trials are from the hand of God, and that there is no such thing as chance, how does he account for them? The principle on which he views them is, that the hope and reward of the faithful servants of God are only laid up in another life; and he maintains that it is plain to all, that the wicked are not treated according to their deserts in this life, but often directly the reverse. But though the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-14No one can change God's mind (9:12–13; 11:10; 12:14; 34:29; Numbers 23:19–20; James 1:17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. in one mind--notwithstanding my innocence, He is unaltered in His purpose of proving me guilty (Job 9:12). soul--His will (Psa 115:3). God's sovereignty. He has one great purpose; nothing is haphazard; everything has its proper place with a view to His purpose.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 23
- 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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