Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Why do thou strive against him because he does not give of any of his matters?
New American Standard Bible
That He does not give an account of all His doings?
King James Version
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Holman Bible
for not answering anything a person asks?
International Standard Version
Why are you arguing with him? He doesn't have to give explanations for what he does to you!
American Standard Version
Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?
Amplified
“Why do you complain against Him?
That He does not answer [you with] all His doings.
Bible in Basic English
Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
Darby Translation
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore didst thou contend against him? for he will not answer all his words.
King James 2000
Why do you strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words?
Modern King James verseion
Why do you fight against Him? For He does not give account for any of His matters.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Why dost thou then strive against him? Because he giveth thee no accounts of all his doings?
NET Bible
Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person's words?
New Heart English Bible
Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, against him, hast thou contended? For, with none of his reasons, will he respond.
Webster
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
World English Bible
Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
Youngs Literal Translation
Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When for all His matters He answereth not?
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 33:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Rebukes Job
12 Behold, I will answer thee. In this thou are not just, for God is greater than man. 13 Why do thou strive against him because he does not give of any of his matters? 14 For God speaks once, yea twice, [though man] does not regard it.
Phrases
Cross References
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?
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.
Job 9:14
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words [to reason] with him?
Job 15:25-26
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.
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,
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.
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.
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 9:4-5
And after falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me?
Romans 11:34
For who has known the mind of Lord? Or who became his counselor?
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?