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 2:16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
• Isa 40:14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
• Rom 11:34–36For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
• Job 33:13Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
• Isa 50:8He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
• Isa 45:9–11Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
• Matt 20:11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
• Rom 9:19–23Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
• Job 9:3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
• Ezek 18:2What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
• Job 27:2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
• Job 13:21–27Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
• Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
• Job 19:6–11Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
• Job 10:3–7Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
• Job 3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
• Job 9:17–18For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
• Job 14:16–17For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
• 1 Cor 10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
• Job 7:19–21How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
• Job 30:21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
• Job 9:32–35For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
• Job 3:11–12Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
• Eccl 6:10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
• Job 10:14–17If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
• Job 16:11–21God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
• Job 7:12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

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