So why are you bringing a charge against him? Why say he does not respond to people’s complaints?
Parallel translations
- WEB Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
- KJV Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
- BSB Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
- NKJV Why do you contend with Him? For He does not give an accounting of any of His words.
- NASB ¶“Why do you complain to Him That He does not give an account of all His doings?
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Quick answer
Moses asks God to show him His ways so he may truly know God and keep finding favor. He longs above all to know God personally.
Overview
Moses' deepest desire is not success but intimate knowledge of God and His ways. He also intercedes by reminding God that this nation is His people. This prayer captures the heart of true faith, which seeks God Himself, the very knowledge that eternal life consists of (John 17:3).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Job 40:2“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
- Isa 45:9Woe to him who strives with his Maker — a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
- Rom 11:34“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
- Dan 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
- Ps 62:11God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
- Acts 1:7He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
- Ezek 22:14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
- Job 15:25–26Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
- Acts 9:4–5He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
- Isa 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
- Jer 50:24I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.
- Matt 20:15Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
- Deut 29:29The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
- 1 Cor 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
- Acts 5:39But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”
- Job 9:14How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
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