Bible Strands
Job 11:10
If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Zophar addresses Job during his first speech in the initial cycle of dialogues, responding to Job's complaints about his suffering. The speaker asserts divine sovereignty over judgment and human limitation.
The words — The Hebrew יַסְגִּיר (yas.gir) means "he may shut up" or imprison, while יַקְהִיל (yak.hil) translates to "he may summon an assembly" or convene a court. These terms frame God's judicial power as absolute and inescapable.
The thread — This theme of irrevocable divine judgment echoes in Job 9:12, Job 12:14, and Revelation 3:7, where God's authority to bind, release, or judge cannot be thwarted by human intervention.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition that human appeals cannot override divine judgment. It requires the reader to confront the limits of their own authority when facing the sovereign will of God.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
Cross-references
- Job 9:12 If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
- Job 12:14 What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Revelation 3:7 To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
- Isaiah 41:27 I was the first to tell Zion: ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news.
- Daniel 4:35 All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- Deuteronomy 32:30 How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
- Job 9:4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
- Job 34:29 But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
- Job 38:8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
- Psalms 31:8 You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.