Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

Bible References

Strive

Job 9:14
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words [to reason] with him?
Job 15:25
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands?
Jeremiah 50:24
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou are also taken, O Babylon, and thou were not aware. Thou are found, and also caught, because thou have striven against LORD.
Ezekiel 22:14
Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I, LORD, have spoken it, and will do it.
Acts 5:39
but if it is from God, ye cannot overthrow it, and perhaps ye may be found to be fighting against God.
Acts 9:4
And after falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me?
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Giveth not account

Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Psalm 62:11
God has spoken once, twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
Isaiah 46:10
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure,
Daniel 4:35
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand, or say to him, What are thou doing?
Matthew 20:15
Is it not permitted for me to do what I want with my own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Acts 1:7
And he said to them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father established in his own authority.
Romans 11:34
For who has known the mind of Lord? Or who became his counselor?