Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man's words’?
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”
And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!” So they took his advice,
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.
I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the Lord.
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,
Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty, running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;
How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
“The secret things belong to the Lord 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.
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