Job 40:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Shall he who would find fault with the Almighty contend with Him? He who disputes with God, let him answer it.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.

Common English Bible

² Will the one who disputes with the Almighty correct him? God’s instructor must answer him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.

Job 40:2 Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:16

“For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Isaiah 40:14

Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice? [[Who taught him knowledge and showed him the way of understanding?

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of my words’?

Matthew 20:11

And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner,

Isaiah 50:8

he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand in court together. Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me.

Ezekiel 18:2

What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?

Job 27:2

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

Job 9:3

If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.

Job 3:23

Why is light given to one who cannot see the way, whom God has fenced in?

Job 3:20

“Why is light given to one in misery and life to the bitter in soul,

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what humans are and that they are not able to dispute with those who are stronger.

Job 30:21

You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.

Job 7:12

Am I the Sea or the Dragon that you set a guard over me?

Job 10:2

I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.

Job 13:3

But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

Job 23:4

I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

Job 31:35

O that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) O that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

Job 40:1

And the Lord said to Job:

Job 40:3

Then Job answered the Lord:

Jeremiah 50:24

I set a snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon, but you did not know it; you were discovered and seized because you challenged the Lord.

Job 38:3

Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you shall declare to me.