Job 23:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.
וְה֣וּא בְ֭אֶחָד וּמִ֣י יְשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ וְנַפְשׁ֖וֹ אִוְּתָ֣ה וַיָּֽעַשׂ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 115 (113):3
- Prov 19:21There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.
- Dan 4:35
- Isa 46:10Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:
- Job 12:14If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.
- Eccl 3:14I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.
- Num 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?
- Num 23:20I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.