I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.
Job 33:13 - 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 thou dost 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? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, ‘What doest thou?’
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God;
“Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter! Does the clay say to him 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 counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you strove against the Lord.
Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that 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 according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What doest thou?”
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority.
but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!”
“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”
But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me thus?”
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.