36 Bible Verses about Others Not Answering

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.

He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying out after us."

But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer.

But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.

And the high priest stood up and said, "Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?"

And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?"

And Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you."

So he questioned him at some length, but he made no answer.

And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him.

And they could not reply to these things.

and if I ask you, you will not answer.

And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, "Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son." But she did not answer or pay attention.

I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.

"So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

Why, when I came, was there no man; why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,

I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in."

I also will choose harsh treatment for them and bring their fears upon them, because when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes and chose that in which I did not delight."

Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered."

And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.

And Ish-bosheth could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.

He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger.

For as the LORD lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."

But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."

He said to her, "Get up, let us be going."But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey, and the man rose up and went away to his home.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made.

And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.

They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.