297 questions God asked across 28 books
“Where art thou?”
“Who told thee that thou wast naked?”
“What is this that thou hast done?”
“Why art thou wroth?”
“If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?”
“What hast thou done?”
“Did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?”
“Is any thing too hard for the LORD?”
“Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?”
“Have they done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me?”
“Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground?”
“What is that in thine hand?”
“Who hath made man's mouth?”
“Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother?”
“Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country?”
“Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me?”
“Criest thou unto me?”
“How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?”
“You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself?”
“Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt?”
“Is the LORD'S hand waxed short?”
“Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
“If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days?”
“How long will this people provoke me?”
“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me?”
“What men are these with thee?”
“Select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee?”
“What kind of children are these?”
“Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?”
“Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge?”
“Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings?”
“Have not I commanded thee?”
“Wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?”
“There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there?”
“Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?”
“Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!?”
“Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?”
“And honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?”
“How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?”
“Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?”
“Why build ye not me an house of cedar?”
“Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you?”
“Ahijah, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill, and you are to give her such and such an answer. When she arrives, she will pretend to be someone else?”
“What doest thou here, Elijah?”
“Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?”
“Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me?”
“Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead ?”
“Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?”
“Ask for whatever you want me to give you?”
“Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead ?”
“Whence comest thou?”
“Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?”
“From whence comest thou?”
“Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?”
“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?”
“Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?”
“Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?”
“Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?”
“When I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness?”
“And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?”
“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place?”
“That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?”
“Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?”
“Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?”
“Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth?”
“Where is the way where light dwelleth?”
“Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?”
“Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?”
“Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt?”
“To water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert?”
“And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?”
“Hath the rain a father?”
“Out of whose womb came the ice?”
“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?”
“Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?”
“Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?”
“Here we are?”
“Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts?”
“Who can number the clouds in wisdom?”
“Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion?”
“When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?”
“Who provideth for the raven his food?”
“Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth?”
“Who hath sent out the wild ass free?”
“To whom I gave the wasteland as his home, the salt flats as his habitat?”
“Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”
“Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks?”
“She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand?”
“Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider?”
“Hast thou given the horse strength?”
“At the blast of the trumpet he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry?”
“Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?”
“Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?”
“Its young ones feast on blood, and where the slain are, there it is?”
“Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him?”
“Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?”
“Wilt thou also disannul my judgment?”
“Hast thou an arm like God?”
“Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at all who are proud and bring them low?”
“Look at all who are proud and humble them, crush the wicked where they stand?”
“Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox?”
“It ranks first among the works of God, yet its Maker can approach it with his sword?”
“The hills bring it their produce, and all the wild animals play nearby?”
“Can anyone capture it by the eyes, or trap it and pierce its nose?”
“Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?”
“Canst thou put an hook into his nose?”
“Shall the companions make a banquet of him?”
“Who then is able to stand before me?”
“Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him?”
“Who can discover the face of his garment?”
“Who can open the doors of his face?”
“Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?”
“What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?”
“How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?”
“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?”
“What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?”
“What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?”
“Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”
“What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?”
“What hast thou here?”
“He made me not?”
“And of ancient times, that I have formed it?”
“To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal?”
“Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these?”
“Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings?”
“Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning?”
“Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know?”
“Who is blind, but my servant?”
“Who among you will give ear to this?”
“Who among them can declare this, and shew us former things?”
“I will work, and who shall let it?”
“Shall ye not know it?”
“Who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people?”
“Have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it?”
“What makest thou?”
“What begettest thou?”
“Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?”
“Who hath declared this from ancient time?”
“To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?”
“For how should my name be polluted?”
“Which among them hath declared these things?”
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?”
“Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away?”
“When I came, was there no man?”
“who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,?”
“And hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy?”
“Therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought?”
“Do ye spend money for that which is not bread?”
“Against whom do ye sport yourselves?”
“Of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart?”
“Is it such a fast that I have chosen?”
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen?”
“Where is the house that ye build unto me?”
“Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?”
“Jeremiah, what seest thou?”
“What seest thou?”
“What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?”
“Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?”
“Is Israel a servant?”
“How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?”
“I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?”
“Where are thy gods that thou hast made thee?”
“Will ye plead with me?”
“Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?”
“Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?”
“If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again?”
“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?”
“How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?”
“and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.?”
“How shall I pardon thee for this?”
“Shall I not visit for these things?”
“Fear ye not me?”
“And what will ye do in the end thereof?”
“Will you not learn a lesson from this, Jerusalem? How long will my wrath burn against you?”
“To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country?”
“Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods?”
“Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?”
“Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?”
“Do they provoke me to anger?”
“Shall they fall, and not arise?”
“Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?”
“We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?”
“Is not the LORD in Zion?”
“For how shall I do for the daughter of my people?”
“Shall I not visit them for these things?”
“Who is the wise man, that may understand this?”
“What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee?”
“If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?”
“Who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?”
“Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?”
“O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?”
“Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field?”
“Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?”
“Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?”
“How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?”
“What is the chaff to the wheat?”
“Is not my word like as a fire?”
“What is the burden of the LORD?”
“Lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished?”
“Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?”
“Why criest thou for thine affliction?”
“For who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me?”
“Is Ephraim my dear son?”
“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?”
“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?”
“Is there any thing too hard for me?”
“And now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?”
“Hath Israel no sons?”
“Gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter?”
“Is wisdom no more in Teman?”
“And art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished?”
“And who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her?”
“Son of man, seest thou what they do?”
“Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery?”
“Hast thou seen this, O son of man?”
“The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?”
“Albeit I have not spoken?”
“Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?”
“Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work?”
“How much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?”
“Shall it prosper?”
“Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean?”
“Shall he prosper?”
“The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?”
“Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?”
“Is not my way equal?”
“O house of Israel, are not my ways equal?”
“For why will ye die, O house of Israel?”
“For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!?”
“Are ye come to enquire of me?”
“Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them?”
“What is the high place whereunto ye go?”
“Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers?”
“And shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel?”
“Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod?”
“Thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city?”
“Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee?”
“Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who slay you?”
“To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden?”
“Whom dost thou pass in beauty?”
“Is the way of the Lord not just? I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”
“And shall ye possess the land?”
“Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well?”
“Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures?”
“Son of man, can these bones live?”
“Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband?”
“O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?”
“How long will it be ere they attain to innocency?”
“How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?”
“He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper. Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?”
“Where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities?”
“Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting?”
“What have I to do any more with idols?”
“And what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine?”
“Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel?”
“Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?”
“Be they better than these kingdoms?”
“Amos, what seest thou?”
“Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel?”
“Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?”
“Doest thou well to be angry?”
“Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?”
“And also much cattle?”
“O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened?”
“O my people, what have I done unto thee?”
“Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?”
“Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?”
“Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?”
“Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?”
“Why?”
“If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy?”
“Is not this people unclean? Is not every work of their hands unclean?”
“how did you fare?”
“Is the seed yet in the barn?”
“Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?”
“When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?”
“When ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?”
“Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?”
“If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes?”
“Wherein hast thou loved us?”
“Was not Esau Jacob's brother?”
“If then I be a father, where is mine honour?”
“And if I be a master, where is my fear?”
“If ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil?”
“And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil?”
“Will he regard your persons?”
“Should I accept this of your hand?”
“Then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?”
“Have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?”
“What house will ye build me? Or what is the place of my rest?”
“Hath not my hand made all these things?”