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Job 40:2

WEB

2“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

KJV

2Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

BSB

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

FBV

2“Are you still going to fight with the Almighty and try to set him straight?[+] who argues with God must give some answers.”

Extra References

1 Corinthians 2:16

16“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?”But we have Christ’s mind.

Isaiah 40:14

14Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

Romans 11:34-36

34“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”35“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”

36For of him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Job 33:13

13Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

Isaiah 45:9-11

9Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’? 10Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’” 11The LORD, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Isaiah 50:8

8He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

Romans 9:19-23

19You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?” 20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”21Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? 22What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—

Matthew 20:11

11When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

Ezekiel 18:2

2“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

Job 9:3

3If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.