Job 40:2
“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
BSB
ASV
Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.
KJV
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer 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
1 Corinthians 2:16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
leads to
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to…
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have…
Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
Through
Isaiah 40:14Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?
leads to
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Through
Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
leads to
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’?