28 Bible Verses about Why Do You Do This?

Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, "Why do you treat your servants like this?

Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food."

And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is perverse before me.

And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"

And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us."

Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?"

So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.

And he said to them, "Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people.

Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"

So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this, and let the male children live?"

David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"

Then Joab arose and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"

The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, "Why have you returned?"

The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?

And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?"

And when they say to you, 'Why do you groan?' you shall say, 'Because of the news that it is coming. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble; every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming, and it will be fulfilled,'" declares the Lord GOD.

Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor?

What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.

What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

They asked him, "Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments."

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?

And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?'