28 Bible Verses about Why Do You Do This?
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The Israeli supervisors came and cried out to Pharaoh, "Why are you doing this to us?
Why did you bring the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness? So we and our cattle could die here?
the people complained against the LORD and Moses. "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?" they asked. "There's no food and water, and we're tired of this worthless bread."
Then the angel of the LORD asked him, "Why did you beat your donkey in the space of only three footsteps? I've come to oppose you, because I say that what you're doing is perverted.
Balak asked Balaam, "Didn't I repeatedly send for you to summon you? Why didn't you come to me? I can pay you well, can't I?"
The leading men of Judah asked, "Why have you invaded us?" They replied, "We're here to arrest Samson. Then we're going to do to him what he did to us."
"Why have you come to see me," Isaac asked them, "since you hate me so much that you sent me away from you?"
So Abimelech called Isaac and confronted him. "She is definitely your wife!" he accused him, "So why did you claim, "She's my sister?'" Isaac responded, "Because I had thought ""otherwise, I'll die on account of her.'"
"Please," Jacob inquired, "Tell me your name." But he asked, "Why are you asking about my name?" And he blessed Jacob there.
"Why are you doing these things that I'm hearing about?" he asked his sons, "These reports about your evil deeds are coming from all these people!
David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech was trembling as he came to meet David. Ahimelech told him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"
When the king of Egypt called for the midwives, he asked them, "Why have you done this and allowed the boys to live?"
At this David asked him, "How is it that you weren't afraid to raise your hand to strike the LORD's anointed?"
At this, Joab got up, went to Absalom's home, and demanded of him, "Why did your servants set fire to my grain field?"
When Cain became very upset and depressed, the LORD asked Cain, "Why are you so upset? Why are you depressed?
Elkanah her husband told her, "Hannah, why are you crying and why don't you eat? Why are you upset? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
When they'll ask you, "Why are you groaning?' you are to say, "Because of the news that just arrived. Every heart will melt with fear, every hand will grow limp, every spirit will grow faint, and every knee will glisten with sweat.' Look! It has come and it will be fulfilled," declares the Lord GOD.
Why are you crying so loud now? There's no king among you, is there? Perhaps your advisor has died? For pain has overtaken you like a woman in labor.
Really, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? See, those who wear fancy clothes live in kings' houses.
Really, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet!
They asked him, "Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?"
But he answered them, "Why do you also disregard the commandment of God because of your tradition?
Jesus asked him, "Why ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you want to get into that life, you must keep the commandments."
About five o'clock he went out and found some others standing around. He asked them, "Why are you standing here all day long without work?'
