Bible Cross References
he will contend
Job 9:20
Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; though I were perfect, it would prove me perverse.
Job 9:32
For He is not a man, as I am, that I may answer Him, and that we should come together in judgment.
Job 9:33
Nor is there any mediator between us, who may lay his hand on us both.
Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.
Job 23:3-7
3
Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come to His place!
4
I would present my case before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5
I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say to me.
6
Would He contend with me in His great power? No! But He would set me in place.
7
There the upright could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
Job 31:35-37
35
Oh, that I had one to hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, that the man complaining had written an indictment!
36
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and bind it on me like a crown;
37
I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince I would approach Him.
Job 33:13
Why do you contend with Him? For He does not give account to you of His business.
Job 34:14
If He should set His heart on it, if He should gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath,
Job 34:15
all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
Job 40:2
Shall the one who contends with the Almighty find fault? He who reproves God, let him testify.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and consecrated place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before Me, and the souls I have made.
Romans 9:20
No, rather, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?
he cannot
Psalm 19:12
Who can understand his errors? Acquit me of that which is hidden;
Psalm 40:12
For evils without number have encompassed me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 3:20
For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.