Isaiah 41:12
Good News Translation
and will disappear from the earth.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.

Contemporary English Version
You will look around for those brutal enemies, but you won't find them--they will be gone.

New American Bible
You shall seek but not find those who strive against you; They shall be as nothing at all who do battle with you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war against thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war against thee.

shalt seek

Job 20:7-9 In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he? . . .

Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus. . . .

them that contended with thee.

Context
God's Help to Israel
11Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee. 12Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war against thee.13For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee by the hand, and say to thee: Fear not, I have helped thee.…
Cross References
Job 20:7
In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

Psalm 37:35
I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus.

Psalm 37:36
And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his place was not found.

Isaiah 17:14
In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.

Isaiah 34:12
The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.

Isaiah 41:11
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