Ecclesiastes 6:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Job 9:32

For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

Job 40:2

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

Jeremiah 49:19

Like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a perennial pasture, I will suddenly chase Edom away from it, and I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who can summon me? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?

Ecclesiastes 3:15

That which is already has been, that which is to be already is, and God seeks out what has gone by.

Job 33:13

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

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 103:15

As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field;

Genesis 3:9

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

1 Corinthians 10:22

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

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

The more words, the more vanity, so how is one the better?