Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Why do you complain against Him?
That He does not answer [you with] all His doings.
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!
A Conservative Version
Why do thou strive against him because he does not give of any of his matters?
American Standard Version
Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?
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
“Look, let me answer you, in this you are not right or just;
For God is greater and far superior to man.
“Why do you complain against Him?
That He does not answer [you with] all His doings.
“For God speaks once,
And even twice, yet no one notices it [including you, Job].
Phrases
Cross References
Job 40:2
“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
Let him who disputes with God answer it.”
Isaiah 45:9
“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who quarrels with his Maker—
A [worthless] piece of broken pottery among other broken pieces [equally worthless]!
Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’
Or does the thing say, ‘He has no hands’?
Deuteronomy 29:29
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed and disclosed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may do all of the words of this law.
Job 9:14
“How can I answer Him [and plead my case],
Choosing my words [to reason] with Him?
Job 15:25-26
“Because he has stretched out his hand against God
And behaves arrogantly against
Psalm 62:11
God has spoken once,
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God.
Isaiah 46:10
Declaring the end and the result from the beginning,
And from ancient times the things which have not [yet] been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will do all that pleases Me and fulfills My purpose,’
Jeremiah 50:24
“I set a trap for you and you also were caught, O Babylon,
And you did not know it;
You have been found and also seized
Because you have struggled against the Lord.”
Ezekiel 22:14
Can your heart (courage) endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and will act.
Daniel 4:35
“All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing.
But He does according to His will in the host of heaven
And among the inhabitants of the earth;
And no one can hold back His hand
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’
Matthew 20:15
Acts 1:7
He said to them,
Acts 5:39
but if it is of God [and it appears that it is], you will not be able to stop them; or else you may even be found fighting against God!”
Acts 9:4-5
and he fell to the ground and heard a voice [from heaven] saying to him,
Romans 11:34
For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor?
1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we [really] provoke the Lord to jealousy [when we eat food sacrificed to handmade “gods” at pagan feasts]? Are we [spiritually] stronger than He? [Certainly not! He knows that the idols are nothing. But we deeply