36 Bible Verses about Others Not Answering

Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question.

But he gave her no answer. And his disciples came and said to him, Send her away, for she is crying after us.

But when the chief priests and those in authority made statements against him, he gave no answer.

But he kept quiet and said nothing. Again the high priest questioning him said, Are you the Christ, the son of the Holy One?

And he gave him no answer, not even a word: so that the ruler was greatly surprised.

And the high priest got up and said to him, Have you no answer? what is it which these say against you?

And the high priest got up in the middle of them, and said to Jesus, Do you say nothing in answer? what is it which these say against you?

And Pilate again put a question, Do you say nothing in answer? see how much evil they say you have done.

And he put a great number of questions to him, but he said nothing.

And again he came and saw them sleeping, because their eyes were very tired; and they had nothing to say in answer.

And they had no answer to that question.

And if I put a question to you, you will not give an answer.

And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.

At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer:

Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.

So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.

For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil which I said I would do to them: because I sent my words to them, but they did not give ear; crying out to them, but they gave no answer.

And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph: is my father still living? But his brothers were not able to give him an answer for they were troubled before him.

And so great was Ish-bosheth's fear of Abner that he was not able to say a word in answer.

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, he was very angry.

For, by the living Lord, the saviour of Israel, even if the sinner is Jonathan, my son, death will certainly be his fate. But not a man among all the people gave him any answer.

But the people kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.

But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.

And he said to her, Get up and let us be going; but there was no answer; so he took her up and put her on the ass, and went on his way and came to his house.

For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.

And from the middle of the day they went on with their prayers till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them.

They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.