questioning god

Job Chapter 38:1

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

Job Chapter 38:2

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Job Chapter 38:3

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

Psalm Chapter 10:1

Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

Psalm Chapter 10:2

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm Chapter 10:3

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

Psalm Chapter 10:4

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Psalm Chapter 10:5

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

Psalm Chapter 10:6

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

Psalm Chapter 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Psalm Chapter 10:8

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Psalm Chapter 10:9

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

Psalm Chapter 10:10

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

Psalm Chapter 10:11

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

Psalm Chapter 10:12

Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

Psalm Chapter 10:13

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Psalm Chapter 10:14

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm Chapter 10:15

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

Psalm Chapter 10:16

The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

Psalm Chapter 10:17

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

Psalm Chapter 10:18

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Psalm Chapter 13:1

How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Psalm Chapter 13:2

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Psalm Chapter 22:1

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

Psalm Chapter 22:2

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

Isaiah Chapter 45:9

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Isaiah Chapter 45:10

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

Isaiah Chapter 45:11

Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

Isaiah Chapter 45:12

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Isaiah Chapter 55:8

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Isaiah Chapter 55:9

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Jeremiah Chapter 12:1

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Lamentations Chapter 3:39

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Lamentations Chapter 3:40

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

Habakkuk Chapter 1:2

O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

Habakkuk Chapter 1:3

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

Matthew Chapter 27:46

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Romans Chapter 9:20

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

1 Corinthians Chapter 2:16

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

James Chapter 1:5

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

James Chapter 1:6

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.