Job 40:2

New International Reader's Version

“I am the Mighty One. Will the man who argues with me correct me? Let him who brings charges against me answer me!”

Cross References

Job 10:2

I say to God, ‘Don’t find me guilty. Instead, tell me what charges you are bringing against me.

Job 13:3

In fact, I long to speak to the Mighty One. I want to argue my case with God.

Job 23:4

I would state my case to him. I’d give him all my arguments.

Job 27:2

“God hasn’t treated me fairly. The Mighty One has made my life bitter. You can be sure that God lives. And here’s something else you can be sure of.

Job 3:20

“Why should those who suffer ever be born? Why should life be given to those whose spirits are bitter?

Job 3:23

Why is life given to a man like me? God hasn’t told me what will happen to me. He has surrounded me with nothing but trouble.

Job 30:21

You do mean things to me. You attack me with your mighty power.

Job 31:35

“I wish someone would listen to me! I’m signing my name to everything I’ve said. I hope the Mighty One will give me his answer. I hope the one who brings charges against me will write them down.

Job 33:13

Why do you claim that God never answers anybody’s questions?

Job 38:3

Get ready to stand up for yourself. I will ask you some questions. Then I want you to answer me.

Job 40:1

The Lord continued,

Job 40:3

Job replied to the Lord,

Job 7:12

Am I the ocean? Am I the sea monster? If I’m not, why do you guard me so closely?

Job 9:3

They might wish to argue with him. But they couldn’t answer him even once in a thousand times.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

God has already planned what now exists. He has already decided what a human being is. No one can argue with someone who is stronger.

Isaiah 40:14

Did the Lord have to ask anyone to help him understand? Did he have to ask someone to teach him the right way? Who taught him what he knows? Who showed him how to understand?

Isaiah 50:8

He is near. He will prove I haven’t done anything wrong. So who will bring charges against me? Let’s face each other in court! Who can bring charges against me? Let him come and face me!

Jeremiah 50:24

Babylon, I set a trap for you. And you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured. That is because you opposed me.

Ezekiel 18:2

“You people have a proverb about the land of Israel. What do you mean by it? It says, “ ‘The parents eat sour grapes. But the children have a bitter taste in their mouths.’

Matthew 20:11

When they received it, they began to complain about the owner.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Are we trying to make the Lord jealous? Are we stronger than he is?

1 Corinthians 2:16

“Who can ever know what is in the Lord’s mind? Can anyone ever teach him?” (Isaiah 40:13) But we have the mind of Christ.