Bible Cross References
he will contend
Job 9:20
Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; Though I [were] blameless, 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 go to court together.
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 seat!
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 take [note] of me.
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! Here is my mark. [Oh, that] the Almighty would answer me, [That] my Prosecutor had written a book!
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 an accounting of any of His words.
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 correct [Him?] He who rebukes God, let him answer it."
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name [is] Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy [place,] With him [who] has a 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 fail before Me, And the souls [which] I have made.
Romans 9:20
But indeed, 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? Cleanse me from secret [faults.]
Psalm 40:12
For innumerable evils have surrounded 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.