Job 33:13 “Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?”

Job 33:13

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

World English Bible

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

American Standard Version

Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?

Geneva Bible 1599

Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not giue account of all his matters.

Darby Translation

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

Young's Literal Translation

Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When [for] all His matters He answereth not?

Bible in Basic English

Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

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Cross references

“strive”

Isaiah 45:9 Job 9:14 Jeremiah 50:24 Ezekiel 22:14 Acts 5:39 1 Corinthians 10:22

Isaiah 45:9 · BSB

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

Job 9:14 · BSB

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

Jeremiah 50:24 · BSB

I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:14 · BSB

Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.

Acts 5:39 · BSB

But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”

1 Corinthians 10:22 · BSB

Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

“giveth not account”

Job 40:2 Daniel 4:35 Romans 11:34 Deuteronomy 29:29 Psalm 62:11 Isaiah 46:10

Job 40:2 · BSB

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

Daniel 4:35 · BSB

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

Romans 11:34 · BSB

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

Deuteronomy 29:29 · BSB

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

Psalm 62:11 · BSB

God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,

Isaiah 46:10 · BSB

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

14For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

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