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Job 23

Job 23:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But he is in one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
mind, and who can turn
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
him? and what his soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
desireth
'avah (Hebrew #183)
to wish for
KJV usage: covet, (greatly) desire, be desirous, long, lust (after).
Pronounce: aw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
, even that he doeth
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ministry on This Verse

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who can.
Job 9:12‑13• 12Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
 13+God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him: (Job 9:12‑13)
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Job 11:10• 10If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him? (Job 11:10)
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Job 12:14• 14Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening. (Job 12:14)
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Job 34:29• 29When he giveth quietness, who then will disturb? and when he hideth his face, who shall behold him? and this towards a nation, or towards a man alike; (Job 34:29)
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Num. 23:19‑20• 19*God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man, that he should repent. Shall he say and not do? and shall he speak and not make it good?
 20Behold, I have received mission to bless; and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it. (Num. 23:19‑20)
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Eccl. 1:15• 15That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. (Eccl. 1:15)
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Eccl. 3:14• 14I know that whatever God doeth, it shall be for ever; there is nothing to be added to it, nor anything to be taken from it; and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. (Eccl. 3:14)
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Rom. 9:19• 19Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose? (Rom. 9:19)
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James 1:17• 17Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning. (James 1:17)
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Psa. 115:3• 3But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he pleased. (Psa. 115:3)
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Psa. 135:6• 6Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, he hath done in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all deeps; (Psa. 135:6)
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Prov. 19:21• 21Many are the thoughts in a man's heart, but the counsel of Jehovah, that doth stand. (Prov. 19:21)
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Isa. 14:24‑27• 24Jehovah of hosts hath sworn saying, Assuredly as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, it shall stand:
 25to break the Assyrian in my land; and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
 26This is the counsel which is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand which is stretched out upon all the nations.
 27For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? (Isa. 14:24‑27)
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Isa. 46:10• 10declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; (Isa. 46:10)
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Dan. 4:35• 35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of the heavens, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? (Dan. 4:35)
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Eph. 1:9‑11• 9having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself
 10for the administration of the fulness of times; to head up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth; in him,
 11in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will, (Eph. 1:9‑11)
• Afraid of God as his enemy (vers. 13-17). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• But how true it is that if we commend ourselves we condemn God. Thus Job adds that God is determined to punish him, and nothing can swerve Him from this purpose! (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.