28 Bible Verses about Why Do You Do This?
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Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?
Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?
And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.
And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.
And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send to you, requesting you with all my heart to come to me? why did you not come? am I not able to give you a place of honour?
And the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? And they said, We have come up to take Samson, and to do to him as he has done to us.
And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me you sent me away from you?
And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.
Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.
And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways.
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you?
And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?
And David said to him, Had you no fear of stretching out your hand to put to death the one marked with the holy oil?
Then Joab came to Absalom in his house and said to him, Why have your servants put my field on fire?
And the men he had sent came back to the king; and he said to them, Why have you come back?
Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons?
And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.
Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:
But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses.
But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
And they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?
And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?
And he said to him, Why are you questioning me about what is good? One there is who is good: but if you have a desire to go into life, keep the rules of the law.
And Jesus said to him, Why do you say I am good? no one is good but one, and that is God.
But Jesus saw their trick and said, Oh false ones, why are you attempting to put me in the wrong?
And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing?