I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
Job 33:13 - New Revised Standard Version Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of my words’? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”
He snatches away; who can stop him? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,
Woe to you who strive with your Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”?
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, “My purpose shall stand, and I will fulfill my intention,”
You set a snare for yourself and you were caught, O Babylon, but you did not know it; you were discovered and seized, because you challenged the Lord.
Can your courage endure, or can your hands remain strong in the days when I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.
All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What are you doing?”
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.
but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them—in that case you may even be found fighting against God!” They were convinced by him,
“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
But who indeed are you, a human being, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.