Job 33:13

Thou, Job, strivest against God, that not at all thy words [he] answered to thee. (Thou, Job, complainest against God, for he answered not any of thy words to thee.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Therefore this thing it is, in which thou art not made just, (or And so it is this in which thou art wrong); I shall answer to thee, that God is more than man.

14God speaketh once, and the second time he rehearseth not the same thing. (For God speaketh once, and he repeateth not the same thing a second time.)

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:29Diverse things be hid, or privy, of our Lord God, that is, in his before-knowing, which things be showed to us, and to our sons (into) without end, that we do all the words of this law. (Some things be hid, or known only, by the Lord our God, that is, in his foreknowing, but other things be shown to us, and to our descendants into without end, so that we can do all the words of this law.)

Job 9:14How great am I, that I answer to him, and speak by my words with him? (How great am I, that I answer him, and say my words to him?)

Job 10:6(so) that thou inquire (after) my wickedness, and ensearch (after) my sin?

Job 40:2Whether he, that striveth with God, shall have rest so lightly? Soothly he, that reproveth God, oweth for to answer to him. (Shall he, who argueth with God, now so easily have rest? Yea he, who rebuketh God, ought to answer him.)

Isaiah 45:9Woe to him that against-saith his maker, (he who is but) a tilestone of [the] earth of sands. Whether [the] clay saith to his potter, What makest thou (?), and thy work is without hands? (Woe (to him) who saith against, (or contendest with), his Maker, he who is but a piece of tilestone, formed of the sands of the earth. Can the clay really say to its potter, What makest thou? or his work say to him, Thou hast no skill!)

Jeremiah 50:24Babylon, I have snared thee, and thou art taken, and thou knewest not; thou art found, and taken, for thou stirredest the Lord to wrath (or for thou hast stirred the Lord to anger).

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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