Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 11:10

10. If he cut off , and shut up , or gather together , then who can hinder him ?

To wit, a Person or a Family.

In a Prison, or in the hands of an Enemy. This shutting up, is opposed to the opening of the prisondoors, and to that enlargement, which God is elsewhere said to give to men.

Either 1. in a way of judgment, as a like word is used, Psalm 26. 9. Gather not my soul with sinners. Or rather 2. in a way of mercy, as this word is generally used in Scripture; this being every where promised by God to his people, as an eminent mercy that he would gather them together. So this is opposed to the former actions, and the sense of the place is, whether it pleaseth God to scatter a Family, or to gather them together from their dispersions.

From doing what he pleaseth and designeth with his own Creatures? Who can restrain him either by giving Law to him, or by force and power? Or, who can contradict or answer him, or object against him, or retort or return upon him; i. e. charge him with injustice in such proceedings? Which sense may seem to agree best both with the scope of the place, and state of the question between him and Iob; which was not whether any man could resist God's power, but whether he could question his justice; and with the following Verse.

Marginal references: Chap. 9. 12.; Or, make a change.; Heb. who can turn him away?