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, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
• Isa 40:14Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
• Rom 11:34–36“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
• Job 33:13Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
• Isa 50:8He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
• Isa 45:9–11Woe 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?’
• Matt 20:11When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
• Rom 9:19–23You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
• Job 9:3If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
• Ezek 18:2“What do you mean, that you 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 27:2“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
• Job 13:21–27withdraw your hand far from me; and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
• Job 3:20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
• Job 19:6–11know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
• Job 10:3–7Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
• Job 3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
• Job 9:17–18For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
• Job 14:16–17But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
• 1 Cor 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
• Job 7:19–21How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
• Job 30:21You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
• Job 9:32–35For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
• Job 3:11–12“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
• Eccl 6:10Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
• Job 10:14–17if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
• Job 16:11–21God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
• Job 7:12Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

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