Job 40:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

(39:35) Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it.

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  • Job 33:13 : 13 Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not giue account of all his matters.
  • Job 9:3 : 3 If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand.
  • Isa 45:9-9 : 9 Woe be vnto him that striueth with his maker, the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth: shall the clay say to him that facioneth it, What makest thou? or thy worke, It hath none hands? 10 Woe vnto him that sayeth to his father, What hast thou begotten? or to his mother, What hast thou brought foorth? 11 Thus saith the Lord, the holy one of Israel, and his maker, Aske me of things to come concerning my sonnes, and concerning the workes of mine hands: commande you me.
  • Isa 50:8 : 8 Hee is neere that iustifieth mee: who will contend with me? Let vs stande together: who is mine aduersarie? let him come neere to me.
  • Ezek 18:2 : 2 What meane ye that ye speake this prouerbe, concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers haue eaten sowre grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge?
  • Matt 20:11 : 11 And when they had receiued it, they murmured against the master of the house,
  • Rom 9:19-23 : 19 Thou wilt say then vnto me, Why doeth he yet complaine? for who hath resisted his will? 20 But, O man, who art thou which pleadest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power of the clay to make of the same lumpe one vessell to honour, and another vnto dishonour? 22 What and if God would, to shewe his wrath, and to make his power knowen, suffer with long patience the vessels of wrath, prepared to destruction? 23 And that hee might declare the riches of his glory vpon the vessels of mercy, which hee hath prepared vnto glory?
  • Rom 11:34-36 : 34 For who hath knowen the minde of the Lord? or who was his counsellour? 35 Or who hath giuen vnto him first, and he shalbe recompensed? 36 For of him, and through him, and for him are all things: to him be glory for euer. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 2:16 : 16 For who hath knowen the minde of the Lorde, that hee might instruct him? But we haue the minde of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Doe we prouoke the Lord to anger? are we stronger then he?
  • Job 9:17-18 : 17 For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause. 18 He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
  • Job 9:32-35 : 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement. 33 Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both. 34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me: 35 Then will I speake, & feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.
  • Job 10:3-7 : 3 Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked? 4 Hast thou carnall eyes? Or doest thou see as man seeth? 5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? Or thy yeres, as the time of man, 6 That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne? 7 Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.
  • Job 10:14-17 : 14 If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie. 15 If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction. 16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me. 17 Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.
  • Job 13:21-27 : 21 Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide. 22 Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me. 23 Howe many are mine iniquities & sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie? 25 Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble? 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth. 27 Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.
  • Job 14:16-17 : 16 But nowe thou nombrest my steppes, and doest not delay my sinnes. 17 Mine iniquitie is sealed vp, as in a bagge, and thou addest vnto my wickednesse.
  • Job 16:11-21 : 11 God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked. 12 I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe. 13 His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall vpon the ground. 14 He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant. 15 I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust. 16 My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes, 17 Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure. 18 O earth, couer not thou my blood, & let my crying finde no place. 19 For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie. 20 My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God. 21 Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
  • Job 19:6-9 : 6 Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement. 8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths. 9 Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head. 10 He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree. 11 And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
  • Job 27:2 : 2 The liuing God hath taken away my iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse.
  • Job 30:21 : 21 Thou turnest thy selfe cruelly against me, and art enemie vnto mee with the strength of thine hand.
  • Eccl 6:10 : 10 What is that that hath bene? the name thereof is nowe named: and it is knowen that it is man: and he cannot striue with him that is stronger then he.
  • Isa 40:14 : 14 Of whom tooke he counsell, and who instructed him and taught him in the way of iudgement? or taught him knowledge, and shewed vnto him the way of vnderstanding?
  • Job 3:11-12 : 11 Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe? 12 Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?
  • Job 3:20 : 20 Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
  • Job 3:23 : 23 Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
  • Job 7:12 : 12 Am I a sea or a whalefish, that thou keepest me in warde?
  • Job 7:19-21 : 19 Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spettle. 20 I haue sinned, what shal I do vnto thee? O thou preseruer of me, why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden vnto my selfe? 21 And why doest thou not pardon my trespasse? and take away mine iniquitie? for nowe shall I sleepe in the dust, and if thou seekest me in the morning, I shall not be found.

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