Job 33:13

Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

In Context

12Therefore, it is for this reason that you have not been justified. For I tell you that God is greater than man.

14God speaks once, and he does not repeat the same thing a second time.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:29These hidden things of the Lord our God have been revealed to us and to our sons in perpetuity, so that we may accomplish all the words of this law.”

Job 9:14what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him?

Job 10:6so that you would inquire about my iniquity and examine my sin?

Job 40:2Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.

Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who contradicts his Maker, a mere shard from an earthen vessel! Should the clay say to the potter, “What are you making?” or, “Your work is not made by your hands?”

Jeremiah 50:24I have ensnared you, and you have been captured, O Babylon, and you did not realize it. You have been discovered and seized, because you provoked the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Job 33:9-14

8 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, 9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. 10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, 11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. 12 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. 13 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters. In these verses, I. Elihu… Read the whole commentary →

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