“If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?”
Zophar asserts that if God passes through and imprisons and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him? articulating the view that divine action is irresistible and unarguable. The rhetorical question expects no answer: no one can oppose God or challenge God's judgment. The theme of divine irresistibility has been developed across the dialogue.
Church Fathers on Job 11:10
If He overturn all things, or shut them up together, then who shall gainsay Him? Or who can say to Him, Why doest Thou so? The Lord ‘overturns heaven,’ when by His terrible and secret ordering He pulls down the height of man's contemptations. He ‘subverts hell,’ when He allows the soul of any affrighted under its temptations to fall even into worse extremes. He ‘overturns the earth,’ when He cuts off the fruitfulness of good works by adversities pouring in. He ‘overturns the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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