Job 40:2

God challenges whether anyone who contends with the Almighty can correct him, asking Job to answer. The fault-finder is summoned to defend his charges before God.

Cross-references · 27

• 1 Cor 2:16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
• Isa 40:14Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?
• Rom 11:34–36“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
• Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
• Isa 50:8The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!
• Isa 45:9–11Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
• Matt 20:11On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
• Rom 9:19–23One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
• Job 9:3If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
• Ezek 18:2“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
• Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
• Job 13:21–27Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
• Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
• Job 19:6–11then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
• Job 10:3–7Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
• Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
• Job 9:17–18For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
• Job 14:16–17For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
• 1 Cor 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
• Job 7:19–21Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
• Job 30:21You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
• Job 9:32–35For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
• Job 3:11–12Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
• Eccl 6:10Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.
• Job 10:14–17If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
• Job 16:11–21God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
• Job 7:12Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

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