Job 33:13
Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
Majority Standard Bible
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 are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
14For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.
Cross References
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.
Job 9:14How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
Job 10:6that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
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’?
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.
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 →