Job 23:13
Good News Translation
He never changes. No one can oppose him or stop him from doing what he wants to do.

New Revised Standard Version
But he stands alone and who can dissuade him? What he desires, that he does.

Contemporary English Version
But he alone is God, and who can oppose him? God does as he pleases,

New American Bible
But once he decides, who can contradict him? What he desires, that he does.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.

who can

Job 9:12,13 If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so? . . .

Job 11:10 If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?

Job 12:14 If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.

Job 34:29 For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?

Numbers 23:19,20 God 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? . . .

Ecclesiastes 1:15 The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 I 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.

Romans 9:19 Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?

James 1:17 Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.

and what

Psalm 115:3 But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would.

Psalm 135:6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done, in heaven, in earth, in the sea, and in all the deeps.

Proverbs 19:21 There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.

Isaiah 14:24-27 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed, . . .

Isaiah 46:10 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me:

Daniel 4:35 0

Ephesians 1:9-11 That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him, . . .

Context
Job Longs for God
12I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom. 13For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.14And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him.…
Cross References
Job 10:7
And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

Job 10:13
Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that thou rememberest all things.

Job 23:12
I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

Job 23:14
And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him.

Isaiah 14:24
The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,

Job 23:12
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