Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"If he pass through, and shut up, And all unto judgment, then who can hinder him?" — Job 11:10 (ASV)
If he cut off. —It is the same word as a spirit passed before me (Job 4:15); and as Job himself used (Job 9:11): he passes on, but I perceive him not.
“If, then,” says Zophar, “God acts thus, or if He delivers up a man into the hands of his enemies, or if He calls together a multitude against him—alluding apparently to Job 9:11-12; Job 10:17, where the word rendered changes is a derivative of the word here rendered ‘cut off’—then who can turn Him back from His intent?” adopting Job’s own question at Job 9:12: Who can hinder Him?
Some understand the three terms forensically: “if He arrests, imprisons, and convenes a court;” but it is probable that Job’s own statements are alluded to.