Job 23:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.”
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“But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But he is in onemind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And He <FI>is<Fi> in one <FI>mind<Fi> , And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired--and He doth <FI>it<Fi> .”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 23:13 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Job 9:12If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
- Job 10:13Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
- Job 11:10If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
- Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Job 34:29But 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,
- Psalms 115:3Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.
- Psalms 135:6The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.
- Proverbs 19:21Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
- Ecclesiastes 1:15What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.
- Isaiah 14:24The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
- Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
- Isaiah 46:11I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.
- Daniel 4:35All 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?’”
- Romans 9:19One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
- Ephesians 1:9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
- James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
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