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13 Why do you contend against him,
    saying, ‘He will answer none of my[a] words’?(A)

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  1. 33.13 Compare Gk: Heb his

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?[a]
    Anyone who argues with God must respond.”(A)

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  1. 40.2 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

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)

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  1. 45.9 Cn: Heb with the potsherds or with the potters

22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?(A)

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34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”(A)

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He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”(A) He asked, “Who are you, Lord?” The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

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39 but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them—in that case you may even be found fighting against God!”

They were convinced by him,(A)

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He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.(A)

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15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’[a](A)

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  1. 20.15 Gk is your eye evil because I am good?

35 All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
    and he does what he wills with the host of heaven
    and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can stay his hand
    or say to him, “What have you done?”(A)

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14 Can your courage endure, or can your hands remain strong in the days when I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.(A)

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24 I set a snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon,
    but you did not know it;
you were discovered and seized
    because you challenged the Lord.(A)

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10 declaring the outcome from the beginning
    and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, “My purpose shall stand,
    and I will fulfill my intention,”(A)

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11 Once God has spoken;
    twice have I heard this:
that power belongs to God,(A)

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25 Because they stretched out their hands against God
    and bid defiance to the Almighty,[a](A)
26 running stubbornly against him
    with a thickly bossed shield;

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  1. 15.25 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

14 How then can I answer him,
    choosing my words with him?

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29 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.

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