| Geneva Study Bible If he cut off, and {e} shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? (e) If God should turn the state of things and establish a new order in nature, who could control him? Wesley's Notes 11:10 Cut off - A person or family. Shut - Its a prison, or in the hands of an enemy. Gather - Whether it pleaseth God to scatter a family, or to gather them together from their dispersions. Hinder - Or, who can contradict him, charge him with injustice in such proceedings? King James Translators' Notes cut...: or, make a change hinder...: Heb. turn him away? Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 10. cut off-Rather, as in Job 9:11, "pass over," as a storm; namely, rush upon in anger. shut up-in prison, with a view to trial. gather together-the parties for judgment: hold a judicial assembly; to pass sentence on the prisoners. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 11:7-12 Zophar speaks well concerning God and his greatness and glory, concerning man and his vanity and folly. See here what man is; and let him be humbled. God sees this concerning vain man, that he would be wise, would be thought so, though he is born like a wild ass's colt, so unteachable and untameable. Man is a vain creature; empty, so the word is. Yet he is a proud creature, and self-conceited. He would be wise, would be thought so, though he will not submit to the laws of wisdom. He would be wise, he reaches after forbidden wisdom, and, like his first parents, aiming to be wise above what is written, loses the tree of life for the tree of knowledge. Is such a creature as this fit to contend with God? | 
