Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

Whether thou refuse

What

Bible References

Should

Job 9:12
“Were He to snatch away, who could restrain Him?
Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’
Job 18:4
“O you who tear yourself in your anger—
For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?
Isaiah 45:9
“Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker—
An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth!
Will the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’
Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?
Romans 9:20
On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?
Romans 11:35
Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again?

He will

Job 34:11
“For He pays a man according to his work,
And makes him find it according to his way.
Job 15:31
“Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
For emptiness will be his reward.
Psalm 89:30
“If his sons forsake My law
And do not walk in My judgments,
Proverbs 11:31
If the righteous will be rewarded in the earth,
How much more the wicked and the sinner!
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
Hebrews 2:2
For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,
Hebrews 11:26
considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.

Whether thou refuse

Psalm 135:6
Whatever the Lord pleases, He does,
In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
Matthew 20:12
saying, ‘These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’

What

Job 33:5
Refute me if you can;
Array yourselves before me, take your stand.