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Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, `What are you doing?`
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God's Sovereign Right
Commentators agree that this verse is a powerful declaration of God's absolute sovereignty. Job acknowledges that God has a right to take away anything He has given—property, health, or even life. As Albert Barnes notes, these are gifts 'lent to us for a little time,' and God is simply reclaiming what is His. Therefore, questioning Him ('What doest thou?') is futile and inappropriate.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Behold, he taketh away—Property, friends, or life.
Who can hinder him?—Margin: "turn him away." Or, rather, …
19th Century
Anglican
What are you doing? — Even if God were, so to speak, in the wrong and the assailant, yet even then He would maintain His cause fro…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Behold, he takes away There are some things God never takes away from his people; he never takes away his love from …
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In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied being a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before…
13th Century
Catholic
Since the blessed Job wished to affirm that he did not desire to argue with God, he first showed the depth of God's wisdom in natural things by usi…
