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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• 12Lo, he snatcheth away: who shall turn him away?{HR}Who saith to him, What doest thou?
 13God turneth not from his wrath:{HR}The helpers of pride have stooped under him. (Job 9:12‑13)
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Job 11:10• 10If he pass by, and arrest,{HR}And gather together, who can hinder him? (Job 11:10)
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Job 12:14• 14He breaketh down, and it is not built up.{HR}He shutteth up on man, and it is not opened. (Job 12:14)
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Job 34:29• 29And he giveth rest, and who can disturb?{HR}And hideth his face, and who beholdeth it?{HR}Whether as to a nation or to a man, the same, (Job 34:29)
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Num. 23:19‑20• 19Elohim is not a man, that he should lie;{HR}Neither the son of man, that he should repent:{HR}Hath he said, and shall he not do it?{HR}Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
 20Behold, I have received commandment to bless:{HR}And he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. (Num. 23:19‑20)
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Eccl. 1:15• 15[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight:{HR}And that which is wanting cannot be numbered. (Eccl. 1:15)
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Eccl. 3:14• 14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever:{HR}Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it;{HR}And God hath done it, that men should fear before Him. (Eccl. 3:14)
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Rom. 9:19• 19Thou wilt say to me then, Why then doth he yet find fault? for his purpose who resisteth? (Rom. 9:19)
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James 1:17• 17Every good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor shadow of turning. (James 1:17)
and what.
Psa. 115:3• 3And our God [is] in the heavens:{HR}All that he pleased he did. (Psa. 115:3)
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Psa. 135:6• 6All that Jehovah delighteth in he doeth{HR}In the heavens and in the earth,{HR}In the seas and all depths, (Psa. 135:6)
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Prov. 19:21• 21Many thoughts [are] in a man's heart,{HR}But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand. (Prov. 19:21)
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Isa. 14:24‑27• 24Jehovah of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely 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 on my mountains I will trample him; and his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden from off their shoulders:
 26this the purpose [that is] purposed concerning the whole earth, and this the hand [that is] stretched out over 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 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 heaven, 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 fullness of the times, to sum up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him
 11in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to [the] purpose of him that worketh all things according to the counsel of his 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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But he [is] in one thing, and who will turn him?{HR}And his soul desireth, and he will accomplish.