Job 33:13
Why have you striven against Him, || When [for] all His matters He does not answer?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
In Context
12Behold, you have not been righteous [in] this, || I answer you, that God is greater than man.
14For once God speaks, and twice (he does not behold it),
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29The things hidden [belong] to our God YHWH, and the things revealed [belong] to us and to our sons for all time, to do all the words of this law.”
Job 9:14How much less do I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
Job 10:6That You inquire for my iniquity, || And seek for my sin?
Job 40:2“Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.”
Isaiah 45:9Woe [to] him who is striving with his Former || (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Does clay say to its Framer, What [are] you doing? And your work, He has no hands?
Jeremiah 50:24I have laid a snare for you, || And you are also captured, O Babylon, || And you have known, || You have been found, and are also caught, || For you have stirred yourself up against YHWH.
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 →