Ecclesiastes 6:10
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10 Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what humans are and that they are not able to dispute with those who are stronger.(A)
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Job 9:32
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32 For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him,
that we should come to trial together.(A)
Isaiah 45:9-10
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9 Woe to those who strive with their Maker,
earthen vessels with the potter![a]
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”?
or “Your work has no handles”?(A)
10 Woe to anyone who says to a father, “What are you fathering?”
or to a woman, “With what are you in labor?”
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- 45.9 Cn: Heb with the potsherds or with the potters
Job 40:2
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- 40.2 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Romans 9:19-20
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God’s Wrath and Mercy
19 You will say to me then, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”(A) 20 But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”(B)
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Jeremiah 49:19
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19 Like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a perennial pasture, I will suddenly chase Edom[a] away from it, and I will appoint over it whomever I choose.[b] For who is like me? Who can summon me? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?(A)
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Ecclesiastes 3:15
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15 That which is already has been, that which is to be already is, and God seeks out what has gone by.[a](A)
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- 3.15 Heb what is pursued
Job 33:13
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- 33.13 Compare Gk: Heb his
Genesis 3:17-19
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17 And to the man[a] he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
about which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;(A)
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.(B)
19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.”(C)
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- 3.17 Or to Adam
Ecclesiastes 1:9-11
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9 What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.(A)
10 Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has already been
in the ages before us.
11 The people of long ago are not remembered,
nor will there be any remembrance
of people yet to come
by those who come after them.
Psalm 82:6-7
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6 I say, “You are gods,
children of the Most High, all of you;(A)
7 nevertheless, you shall die like mortals
and fall like any prince.”[a](B)
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- 82.7 Or fall as one man, O princes
Psalm 39:6
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6 Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
they heap up and do not know who will gather.(A)
Job 14:1-4
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14 “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,(A)
2 comes up like a flower and withers,
flees like a shadow and does not last.(B)
3 Do you fix your eyes on such a one?
Do you bring me into judgment with you?(C)
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
No one can.(D)
Job 9:3-4
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3 If one wished to contend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand.(A)
4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength;
who has resisted him and succeeded?(B)
Psalm 103:15
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15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
they flourish like a flower of the field;(A)
Genesis 3:9
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9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
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