Job 23:13 Cross References - NSB

¹³ »But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? He does what he wants to do.

¹⁹ »God is a not man that he should lie. He is not a son of man who changes his mind. Does he ever promise and not fulfill? Does he ever speak and not act? ²⁰ »I have been instructed to bless. And when God blesses, I cannot call it back.

¹² »He takes away and who can hinder God? Who can say to God: ‘What are you doing?’ ¹³ »God will not withdraw his anger. The allies of the proud lie thrown down beneath him.

¹⁰ »Who can oppose the one who passes by and confines you in prison and convenes a court?

¹⁴ »What he tears down cannot be rebuilt. The man he imprisons cannot be released.

²⁹ »If God decided to do nothing at all, no one could criticize him. If he hid his face (refused to assist), we would be helpless.

³ Our God is in heaven. He does whatever he pleases.

⁶ Everything Jehovah desires he does in the heavens and in earth, and in the seas and all deep places.

²¹ Many intentions are in men’s hearts. Only counsel from Jehovah will stand.

¹⁵ What is crooked cannot be made straight. What is lacking cannot be numbered.

¹⁴ I know that whatever God does it will be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it. God does it in order that men should reverence (respect) him.

²⁴ Jehovah of Hosts has sworn an oath: »What I have intended (devised) will happen. What I have determined to do will be done. ²⁵ »In my land of Israel I will trample them on my mountains. I will free my people from the Assyrian yoke and from the burdens they have had to bear.« ²⁶ This is my purpose (plan) (advise) for the world, and my arm (extended power) is stretched out to punish the nations. ²⁷ Jehovah of Hosts is determined to do this. He has stretched out his arm to punish, and no one can stop him.

¹⁰ »I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’

³⁵ All the inhabitants of the earth are considered as nothing. He does according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth. None can stop him, or say to him: ‘What do you do?’

¹⁹ You say to me: »Why does he yet find fault? Who resists his purpose (will)?«

⁹ He made known to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure and purpose. ¹⁰ It was for an administration at the appointed time. This administration is to gather up all things in Christ, the things in heaven, and the things upon the earth. Yes in him! ¹¹ We were assigned as heirs predetermined according to his purpose. He works all things according to his direction and will.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.