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Job 33:13

Job 33:13 is verse 13 of Job chapter 33, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Or that He answers for none of His actions

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King James Version

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

World English Bible

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

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Job 33:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’

12 Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

13 Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

14 For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

15 In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 9:14

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

Job 15:25

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

Job 15:26

rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

Isaiah 45:9

Woe 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’?

Jeremiah 50:24

I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:14

Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.

Acts 5:39

But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”

Acts 9:4

He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”

Acts 9:5

“Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” He replied.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Job 40:2

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

Psalms 62:11

God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,

Isaiah 46:10

I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

Daniel 4:35

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

Matthew 20:15

Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Acts 1:7

Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

Romans 11:34

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

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