28 Bible Verses about Why Do You Do This?
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Then the Hebrew foremen came to Pharaoh and cried, “Why do you deal like this with your servants?
Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness to die here, we and our livestock?
So the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, nor is there any water, and we loathe this miserable food.”
The Angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to stand against you, because your behavior was obstinate and contrary to Me.
Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not urgently send word to you to call you? Why did you not come to me [immediately]? Am I really unable to honor (pay) you?”
The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” And they answered, “We have come up to bind Samson, in order to do to him as he has done to us.”
Isaac said to them, “Why have you [people] come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”
Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “See here, Rebekah is in fact your wife! How did you [dare to] say to me, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I thought I might be killed because of her [desirability].”
Then Jacob asked Him, “Please tell me Your name.” But He said, “Why is it that you ask My name?” And He declared a blessing [of the covenant promises] on Jacob there.
Eli said to them, “Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?
Then David went to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came trembling [in fear] to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”
So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and allowed the boy babies to live?”
David said to him, “How is it that you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?”
Then Joab took action and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”
When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he said to them, “Why have you returned [so soon]?”
Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you cry and why do you not eat? Why are you so sad and discontent? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
And when they say to you, ‘Why do you sigh and groan?’ you shall answer, ‘Because of the news that is coming; and every heart will melt and all hands will be frail, and every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will happen,’ says the Lord God.”
“Now, why do you cry out loudly?
Is there no king among you?
Has your counselor perished?
For agony has gripped you like a woman in childbirth.
What did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing [entirely unsuited for the harsh desert]? Those who wear soft clothing are in the palaces of kings!
But what did you [really] go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and one [more eminent, more remarkable, and] far more than a prophet [who foretells the future].
They asked him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
He replied to them, “Why also do you violate the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition [handed down by the elders]?
Jesus answered, “Why are you asking Me about what is [essentially] good? There is only One who is [essentially] good; but if you wish to enter into eternal life, keep the commandments.”
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is [essentially] good [by nature] except God alone.
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is [essentially and morally] good except God alone.
And about the eleventh hour (5:00 p.m.) he went out and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’
