Ecclesiastes 6:10

New English Translation

Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.

Cross References

Genesis 3:9

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

Job 40:2

“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

Job 9:32

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

Psalm 103:15

A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

Psalm 39:6

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 3:15

Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?

Jeremiah 49:19

“A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Edomites off their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me, and there is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler who can stand up against me.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?