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Elihu Rebukes Job

Job 33:13

In 11 translations

BSB
Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?Or that He answers for none of His actions
KJV
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.he giveth…: Heb. he answereth not
WEB
Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
ASV
Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?
LSV
Why have you striven against Him, || When [for] all His matters He does not answer?
YLT
Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When [for] all His matters He answereth not?
DBY
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
DRC
Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?
GNV
Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not giue account of all his matters.
JPS
Why hast thou striven against Him? seeing that He will not answer any of his words.
LXXE
But thou sayest, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?

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Original-language editions

WLC
מַ֭דּוּעַ אֵלָ֣יו רִיב֑וֹתָ כִּ֥י כָל־דְּ֝בָרָ֗יו לֹ֣א־יַעֲנֶֽה׃
LXX-Br
Λέγεις δέ, διατί τῆς δίκης μου οὐκ ἐπακήκοέ μου πᾶν ῥῆμα;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 40:2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
  • Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
  • Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
  • Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
  • Job 9:14How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
  • Acts 9:4–5He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?” “Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” He replied.
  • Psalms 62:11God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,
  • Acts 5:39But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”
  • Job 15:25–26For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty, rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.
  • Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
  • Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
  • Jeremiah 50:24I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.
  • Acts 1:7Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
  • Matthew 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
  • Ezekiel 22:14Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

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