36 Bible Verses about Others Not Answering

Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.

I opened for my beloved, but my lover had already turned and gone away. I fell into despair when he departed. I looked for him but did not find him; I called him but he did not answer me.

Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to King Nebuchadnezzar, "We do not need to give you a reply concerning this.

But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, "Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us."

But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond.

But he was silent and did not answer. Again the high priest questioned him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"

But he did not answer even one accusation, so that the governor was quite amazed.

So the high priest stood up and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that they are testifying against you?"

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is this that they are testifying against you?"

So Pilate asked him again, "Have you nothing to say? See how many charges they are bringing against you!"

So Herod questioned him at considerable length; Jesus gave him no answer.

When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. And they did not know what to tell him.

But they could not reply to this.

and if I ask you, you will not answer.

As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, "Don't be afraid! You have given birth to a son!" But she did not reply or pay any attention.

I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.

Then the Lord said to me, "When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.

Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.

You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!

I predestine you to die by the sword, all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, because I called to you, and you did not respond, I spoke and you did not listen. You did evil before me; you chose to do what displeases me."

So I will choose severe punishment for them; I will bring on them what they dread, because I called, and no one responded, I spoke and they did not listen. They did evil before me; they chose to do what displeases me."

So I, the Lord, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, say: "I will soon bring on Judah and all the citizens of Jerusalem all the disaster that I threatened to bring on them. I will do this because I spoke to them but they did not listen. I called out to them but they did not answer."'"

Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" His brothers could not answer him because they were dumbfounded before him.

Ish-bosheth was unable to answer Abner with even a single word because he was afraid of him.

With Job's three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

But when Elihu saw that the three men had no further reply, he became very angry.

For as surely as the Lord, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!" But no one from the army said anything.

The people were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, "Don't respond to him."

They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, "Don't respond to him."

He said to her, "Get up, let's leave!" But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home.

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

So they took a bull, as he had suggested, and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "Baal, answer us." But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped around on the altar they had made.

Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy, but there was no sound, no answer, and no response.

They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress.