36 Bible Verses about Others Not Answering

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

I opened myself to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone; my heart sank when he turned away. I sought him, but I did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me.

But he did not direct [his] words to me, and I will not answer him with your words.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, "We have no need on this matter {to present a defense to you}.

But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came up [and] asked him, saying, "Send her away, because she is crying out after us!"

And {when he was being accused} by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing.

But he was silent and did not reply anything. Again the high priest asked him and said to him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"

And he did not reply to him, not even with reference to one statement, so that the governor was very astonished.

And the high priest stood up [and] said to him, "Do you reply nothing? What are these [people] testifying against you?"

And the high priest stood up in the midst [of them] [and] asked Jesus, saying, "Do you not reply anything? What are these [people] testifying against you?"

So Pilate asked him again, saying, "Do you not answer anything? See how many [charges] they are bringing against you!"

So he questioned him {at considerable length}, but he answered nothing to him.

And again he came [and] found them sleeping, {for they could not keep their eyes open}, and they did not know what to reply to him.

And they were not able to make a reply to these [things].

and if I ask [you], you will never answer!

Just before the time of her death, those {attending her} said, "Do not fear, for you have given birth to a son." But she did not answer, or {pay any attention}.

I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must {personally} plead with him.

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

Why was there no man when I came, no one who answered when I called? {Do I lack the strength to save}? Or [is there] no power in me to deliver? Look! by my rebuke I dry up [the] sea; I {make} [the] rivers a desert; their fish stink because there is no water, and they die because of thirst.

And now, because of your doing all these things," {declares} Yahweh, "and {I have spoken to you over and over again}, and you have not listened, and I called you, and you have not answered,

and I will remit you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not listen, but you did the evil in my eyes, and you chose that in which I do not delight."

Indeed, I myself I will choose their ill treatment, and I will bring them objects of their dread, because I called, and {no one answered}; I spoke and they did not listen, but they did the evil in my eyes, and they chose that in which I do not delight."

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I [am] going to bring to Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem every disaster that I have spoken against them, because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, and I have called to them and they have not answered." '"

Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I [am] Joseph! Is my father still alive?" And his brothers were unable to answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.

And [Ish-Bosheth] was no longer able to {answer} Abner {because he feared him}.

and {he became angry} at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, {he became angry}.

For as Yahweh lives, who delivers Israel, [I swear] that even if it [is] in Jonathan my son, {he will certainly die}!" But nobody from all the army answered him.

The people were silent, and they did not answer him a word, for the command of that king was saying, "You shall not answer him."

But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, "You must not answer him."

And he said to her, "Get up, let us go," but there was no answer. So he put her on the donkey, and the man got up and went to his place.

"For [he is] not a mortal like me [that] I can answer him, [that] {we can come to trial together}.

If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one [time] in a thousand.

So they took the bull that he allowed to them, prepared it, and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no voice and there was no answer, so they limped about the altar which they had made.

It happened as noon passed, they raged until the [time of] the evening offering, but there was no voice, there was no answer, and no [one] paid attention.

They carry it on [their] shoulder; they support it and they set it [in] its place, and it stands in position. It cannot be removed from its place; even [when] he cries out to it, it does not answer. It does not save him from his trouble.