Verse 3

If someone desired to argue with Him, they could not answer Him once in a thousand times.

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  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.
  • Job 40:2 : 2 Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? Let the one who argues with God answer.
  • Ps 19:12 : 12 By them Your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; may Your love and truth always protect me.
  • Isa 57:15-16 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted One says—he who lives forever, whose name is holy: 'I dwell in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.' 16 I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirit would faint before me—the breath of life that I created.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?'
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
  • 1 John 3:20 : 20 For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 If only I knew where to find him, so that I might come to his dwelling. 4 I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me. 6 Would he contend with me in his great power? No, he would instead give me strength. 7 There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 31:35-37 : 35 Oh, that someone would hear me! I sign now my defense; let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write out his charges in a book. 36 Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown. 37 I would give him an account of my every step; I would present it to him like a prince.
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Why do you contend with Him? For He does not answer all of man's words.
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If He were to set His heart to it and gather to Himself His spirit and breath, 15 all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.
  • Job 9:20 : 20 Even if I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.
  • Job 9:32-33 : 32 For He is not a man, like me, that I might answer Him, that we might go to court together. 33 There is no mediator between us, who might lay his hand on us both.