Job 33:13
Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When [for] all His matters He answereth not?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
In Context
12Lo, [in] this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.
14For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.)
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29'The things hidden [are] to Jehovah our God, and the things revealed [are] to us and to our sons — to the age, to do all the words of this law.
Job 9:14How much less do I — I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
Job 10:6That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
Job 40:2Is 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!) Doth clay say to its Framer, 'What dost thou?' And thy work, 'He hath no hands?'
Jeremiah 50:24I have laid a snare for thee, And also — thou art captured, O Babylon, And thou — thou hast known, Thou hast been found, and also art caught, For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up.
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 →