Ecclesiastes 6:10
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10 Whatever exists has already been named,(A)
and what humanity is has been known;
no one can contend
with someone who is stronger.
Job 9:32
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Isaiah 45:9-10
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9 “Woe to those who quarrel(A) with their Maker,(B)
those who are nothing but potsherds(C)
among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,(D)
‘What are you making?’(E)
Does your work say,
‘The potter has no hands’?(F)
10 Woe to the one who says to a father,
‘What have you begotten?’
or to a mother,
‘What have you brought to birth?’
Job 40:2
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Romans 9:19-20
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19 One of you will say to me:(A) “Then why does God still blame us?(B) For who is able to resist his will?”(C) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(D) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(E) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](F)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
Jeremiah 49:19
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Ecclesiastes 3:15
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Job 33:13
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Footnotes
- Job 33:13 Or that he does not answer for any of his actions
Genesis 3:17-19
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17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’(A)
“Cursed(B) is the ground(C) because of you;
through painful toil(D) you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.(E)
18 It will produce thorns and thistles(F) for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.(G)
19 By the sweat of your brow(H)
you will eat your food(I)
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”(J)
Ecclesiastes 1:9-11
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9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;(A)
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,(B)
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.(C)
Psalm 82:6-7
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Psalm 39:6
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Job 14:1-4
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14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)
2 They spring up like flowers(D) and wither away;(E)
like fleeting shadows,(F) they do not endure.(G)
3 Do you fix your eye on them?(H)
Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(I)
4 Who can bring what is pure(J) from the impure?(K)
No one!(L)
Footnotes
- Job 14:3 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew me
Psalm 103:15
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Genesis 3:9
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9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”(A)
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