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Job 11:10

NETBible	If he comes by¹ and confines² you³ and convenes a court,⁴ then who can prevent⁵ him?
NIV © biblegateway Job 11:10	"If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
NASB © biblegateway Job 11:10	"If He passes by or shuts up, Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?
NLT © biblegateway Job 11:10	If God comes along and puts a person in prison, or if he calls the court to order, who is going to stop him?
MSG © biblegateway Job 11:10	If he happens along, throws you in jail then hauls you into court, can you do anything about it?
BBE © SABDAweb Job 11:10	If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 11:10	If he passes through, and imprisons, and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him?
NKJV © biblegateway Job 11:10	"If He passes by, imprisons, and gathers to judgment , Then who can hinder Him?
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KJV	If he cut off <02498> (8799)_, and shut up <05462> (8686)_, or gather together <06950> (8686)_, then who can hinder <07725> (8686) him? {cut...: or, make a change} {hinder...: Heb. turn him away?}
NASB © biblegateway Job 11:10	"If <0518> He passes <02498> by or shuts <05462> up, Or calls <06950> an assembly <06950> , who <04310> can restrain <07725> Him?
LXXM	ean <1437> CONJ de <1161> PRT katastreqh <2690> V-FMI-2S ta <3588> T-APN panta <3956> A-APN tiv <5100> I-NSM erei {V-FAI-3S} autw <846> D-DSM ti <5100> I-ASN epoihsav <4160> V-AAI-2S
NET [draft] ITL	If <0518> he comes by <02498> and confines <05462> you and convenes <06950> a court, then who <04310> can prevent <07725> him?
HEBREW	wnbysy <07725> ymw <04310> lyhqyw <06950> rygoyw <05462> Plxy <02498> Ma (11:10) <0518>

NETBible

If he comes by¹ and confines² you³ and convenes a court,⁴ then who can prevent⁵ him?

NET Notes

¹tn The verb יַחֲלֹף (yakhalof) is literally “passes by/through” (NIV “comes along” in the sense of “if it should so happen”). Many accept the emendation to יַחְתֹּף (yakhtof, “he seizes,” cf. Gordis, Driver), but there is not much support for these.

²tn The verb is the Hiphil of סָגַר (sagar, “to close; to shut”) and so here in this context it probably means something like “to shut in; to confine.” But this is a difficult meaning, and the sentence is cryptic. E. Dhorme (Job, 162) thinks this word and the next have to be antithetical, and so he suggests from a meaning “to keep confined” the idea of keeping a matter secret; and with the next verb, “to convene an assembly,” he offers “to divulge it.”

³tn The pronoun “you” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation.

⁴tn The denominative Hiphil of קָהָל (qahal, “an assembly”) has the idea of “to convene an assembly.” In this context there would be the legal sense of convening a court, i.e., calling Job to account (D. J. A. Clines, Job [WBC], 255). See E. Ullendorff, “The Meaning of QHLT,” VT 12 (1962): 215; he defines the verb also as “argue, rebuke.”

⁵tn The verb means “turn him back.” Zophar uses Job’s own words (see 9:12).