Elihu Rebukes Job

¹² "Behold, unto these unreasonable words of thine will I make answer. Should God be reproved of man? ¹³ Why dost thou then strive against him? Because he giveth thee no accounts of all his doings? ¹⁴ For when God doth once command a thing, there should no man be curious to search whether it be right.

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Job 40:2

"Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

Isaiah 45:9

Woe be unto him that chideth with his maker, the potsherd with the potter. Sayeth the clay to the potter, "What makest thou?" or "Thy work serveth for nothing?"

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secrets pertain unto the LORD our God and the things that are opened pertain unto us and our children forever, that we do all the words of this law.

Job 9:14

How should I then answer him? Or what words should I find out against him?

Job 15:25-26

For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and armed himself against the Almighty.

Psalm 62:11

God spoke once, and twice I have also heard the same, that power belongeth unto God,

Isaiah 46:10

In the beginning of a thing, I show the end thereof: and I tell before, things that are not yet come to pass. With one word is my device accomplished, and fulfilleth all my pleasure.

Jeremiah 50:24

I myself have laid wait for thee, and thou art taken. Unawares art thou trapped and snared. For why, thou hast provoked the LORD unto anger:

Ezekiel 22:14

Is thy heart able to endure it, or may thy hands defend themselves, in the time that I shall bring upon thee? Even I the LORD that speak it, will bring it also to pass.

Daniel 4:35

in comparison of whom, all they that dwell upon the earth are to be reputed as nothing. He handleth according to his will, among the powers of heaven and among the inhabiters of the earth - and there is none that may resist his hand, or say, 'What doest thou?'

Matthew 20:15

Is it not lawful for me to do as me listeth, with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

Acts 1:7

And he said unto them, "It is not for you to know the times, or the seasons which the father hath put in his own power:

Acts 5:39

but and if it be of God, ye cannot destroy it, lest haply ye be found to strive against God."

Acts 9:4-5

And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"

Romans 11:34

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who was his counselor?

1 Corinthians 10:22

Either, shall we provoke the Lord? Or are we stronger than he?