“But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Job 23 contains 17 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.