Job 33:13
Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
BSB
ASV
Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?
KJV
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Why dost thou strive against him? - By refusing to submit to him, and by calling in question his wisdom and goodness. For he giveth not account of any of his matters - Margin, as in Hebrew “answereth not.” The idea is, that it is as useless as it is improper to contend with God. He does his own pleasure, and deals with man as he deems best and right. The reason of his doings he does not state, nor has man any power to extort from him a statement of the causes why he afflicts us.
He is not bound either to justify his own proceedings or to satisfy our demands and enquiries; his judgments will certainly justify themselves. If we do not satisfy ourselves in them, it is our own fault. It is therefore daring impiety for us to arraign God at our bar, or challenge him to show cause for what he doeth, to say unto him, What doest thou? or, Why doest thou so?
(Isa 45:9). his matters--ways. Our part is, not to "strive" with God, but to submit. To believe it is right because He does it, not because we see all the reasons for His doing it.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
leads to
“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
Through
Psalms 62:11God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,
leads to
After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!
For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.
Through
Daniel 4:35All 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…
leads to
“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.
Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!