I say to Eloah, ‘Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me.
Job 33:13 - The Scriptures 2009 Why have you complained against Him? Because He does not answer all His matters? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Why dost thou strive against him? For he giveth not account of any of his matters. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why do you contend against Him? For He does not give account of any of His actions. [Sufficient for us it should be to know that it is He Who does them.] American Standard Version (1901) Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters? Common English Bible Why do you contend with him, saying that he doesn’t answer all your words? Catholic Public Domain Version Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words? |
I say to Eloah, ‘Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me.
Would you find out Eloah by searching, or search out the end of the Almighty?
“Should a reprover contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves Eloah answer it.”
Look, He snatches away, who brings it back? Who says to Him, ‘What are You doing?’
Elohim has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That strength belongs to Elohim.
“Woe to him who strives with his Maker! (a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth). Does clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?
declaring the end from the beginning, and from of old that which has not yet been done, saying, ‘My counsel does stand, and all My delight I do,’
“I have laid a snare for you, and you were captured, O Baḇel, and you yourself did not know! You have been found and also caught, because you strove against יהוה.”
“Would your heart stand, your hands be strong, in the days when I deal with you? I, יהוה, have spoken, and shall do it.
And all the inhabitants of the earth are of no account, and He does as He wishes with the host of the heavens and among the inhabitants of the earth. And there is none to strike against His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?”
Is it not right for me to do what I wish with my own? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’
And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.
“but if it is of Elohim, you are unable to overthrow it, lest you even be found to fight against Elohim.
“For who has known the mind of יהוה? Or who has become His counsellor?”
But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
“The secret matters belong to יהוה our Elohim, but what is revealed belongs to us and to our children forever, to do all the Words of this Torah.