36 Bible Verses about Others Not Answering

You will ask for my help, but I will not listen. You will search, but you will not find me.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My heart jumped when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him. I called him, but he did not answer.

He has not directed his words against me. 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.

He did not answer her. His disciples said to him: Send her away; she keeps shouting at us.

When the chief priests and those in authority made statements against him, he gave no answer.

But he kept quiet and said nothing. Again the high priest questioned him: Are you the Christ, the son of the Holy One?

Jesus did not answer. Not even a word! The governor was greatly surprised.

The high priest stood up and said to him: Have you no answer? What is it these say against you?

The high priest stood in the middle of them, and said to Jesus: Do you not answer? What is it these say against you?

Pilate again asked him: Do you not answer? See how many things they testify against you!

He offered many questions but received no answers.

He came and found them asleep again. They did not know what to say to him.

Again they could not answer.

and if I ask you, you will not answer.

She too was dying. The women helping her said: Do not be afraid. You have given birth to a son. But she did not answer or pay attention.

I call my slave, but he does not answer, even when I beg him.

You will speak all these words to them. But they will not listen to you. You will call them but they will not answer you.

Why was no one here when I came? Why was no one here to answer when I called? Am I too weak to reclaim you? Do I not have the power to rescue you? I dry up the sea with my command, and I turn rivers into deserts. Their fish stink because there is no water, and people die of thirst.

For the reason that you did all these things, says Jehovah, I spoke to you. I rose up early and spoke. But you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer.

I will destine you for the sword, and you will all bend down for the slaughter! I called but you did not answer. I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.

Therefore I will choose harsh treatment for them and bring on them what they fear. I called, but no one answered. I spoke, but they did not listen. They did what I consider evil. They chose what I do not like.

This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I am going to bring on Judah and on all those who live in Jerusalem all the disasters that I threatened. I have spoken to them, but they did not listen. I called to them, but they did not answer.'

Joseph said to his brothers: I am Joseph! Is my father still alive? His brothers could not answer him because they were afraid of him.

Ishbosheth could not respond to a single word for he was afraid of Abner.

He was angry also with Job's three friends because they found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouths of these three men, he became angry.

I promise by the living Jehovah, who gives Israel victory, that the guilty one will be put to death, even if he is my son Jonathan. But no one said anything.

The people kept quiet. They did as King Hezekiah told them. They did not say a word.

They were silent and did not say anything to him because the king commanded them not to answer him.

He said: Get up and let us go. But there was no answer. Then he put her body across the donkey and started on his way home.

God is not a man, as I am: That I may answer him and we should go to court together.

If one wished to argue with God, he could not answer or respond to him once in a thousand times.

So they took the bull that was given them, and made it ready. They cried out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day. They said: O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. They jumped up and down before the altar they had made.

They went on with their prayers from midday till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them.

They lift it to their shoulders and carry it. They set it up in its place and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Though one cries out to it, it does not answer. It cannot save him from his troubles!