Verse 3

If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:2 : 2 I say unto God, `Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive `with' me.
  • Job 40:2 : 2 Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.
  • Ps 19:12 : 12 Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.
  • Isa 57:15-16 : 15 For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy `is' His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,' 16 For, not to the age do I strive, nor for ever am I wroth, For the spirit from before Me is feeble, And the souls I have made.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus?
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;
  • 1 John 3:20 : 20 because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat, 4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments. 5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me. 6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth `it' in me. 7 There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
  • Job 31:35-37 : 35 Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written. 36 If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself. 37 The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not?
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth. 15 Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
  • Job 9:20 : 20 If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.
  • Job 9:32-33 : 32 But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment. 33 If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand on us both.