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Job 9:32
“ God is not a mortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial.
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Isaiah 45:9-10
“ What sorrow awaits those who argue with their Creator. Does a clay pot argue with its maker? Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying,‘ Stop, you’re doing it wrong!’ Does the pot exclaim,‘ How clumsy can you be?’How terrible it would be if a newborn baby said to its father,‘ Why was I born?’ or if it said to its mother,‘ Why did you make me this way?’”
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Job 40:2
“ Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? You are God’s critic, but do you have the answers?”
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Ecclesiastes 3:15
What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.
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Job 9:3-4
If someone wanted to take God to court, would it be possible to answer him even once in a thousand times?For God is so wise and so mighty. Who has ever challenged him successfully?
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Job 14:1-4
“ How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble!We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature and demand an accounting from me?Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one!
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Psalms 82:6-7
I say,‘ You are gods; you are all children of the Most High.But you will die like mere mortals and fall like every other ruler.’”
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Psalms 39:6
We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it.
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Genesis 3:17-19
And to the man he said,“ Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”
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Romans 9:19-20
Well then, you might say,“ Why does God blame people for not responding? Haven’t they simply done what he makes them do?”No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it,“ Why have you made me like this?”
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Job 33:13
So why are you bringing a charge against him? Why say he does not respond to people’s complaints?
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Jeremiah 49:19
I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan, leaping on the sheep in the pasture. I will chase Edom from its land, and I will appoint the leader of my choice. For who is like me, and who can challenge me? What ruler can oppose my will?”
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Psalms 103:15
Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9-11
History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.Sometimes people say,“ Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new.We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.
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Genesis 3:9
Then the Lord God called to the man,“ Where are you?”