Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Why do you strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters.
New American Standard Bible
That He does not give an account of all His doings?
King James Version
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Holman Bible
for not answering anything a person asks?
International Standard Version
Why are you arguing with him? He doesn't have to give explanations for what he does to you!
A Conservative Version
Why do thou strive against him because he does not give of any of his matters?
American Standard Version
Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?
Amplified
“Why do you complain against Him?
That He does not answer [you with] all His doings.
Bible in Basic English
Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
Darby Translation
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore didst thou contend against him? for he will not answer all his words.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words?
Modern King James verseion
Why do you fight against Him? For He does not give account for any of His matters.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Why dost thou then strive against him? Because he giveth thee no accounts of all his doings?
NET Bible
Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person's words?
New Heart English Bible
Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, against him, hast thou contended? For, with none of his reasons, will he respond.
Webster
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
World English Bible
Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
Youngs Literal Translation
Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When for all His matters He answereth not?
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 33:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Rebukes Job
12 Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, for God is greater than man. 13 Why do you strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters. 14 For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 40:2
Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What do you make? or of your work, He has no hands?
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Job 9:14
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Job 15:25-26
For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
Psalm 62:11
God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs unto God.
Isaiah 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Jeremiah 50:24
I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have contended against the LORD.
Ezekiel 22:14
Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
Daniel 4:35
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can restrain his hand, or say unto him, What do you?
Matthew 20:15
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?
Acts 1:7
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.
Acts 5:39
But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God.
Acts 9:4-5
And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
Romans 11:34
For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor?
1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?