233 questions God was asked across 36 books
“Am I my brother's keeper?”
“Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?”
“Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?”
“Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?”
“Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?”
“Wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?”
“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
“Wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five?”
“Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?”
“Said he not unto me, She is my sister?”
“If it be so, why am I thus?”
“Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
“What is his name?”
“What if they do not believe me or listen to me?”
“Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people?”
“Why did you send me?”
“How then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?”
“I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?”
“Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods?”
“What shall I do unto this people?”
“LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?”
“Mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth?”
“Wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight?”
“Now show me your glory?”
“Who shall give us flesh to eat?”
“Hast thou afflicted thy servant?”
“Have I conceived all this people?”
“Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people?”
“Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’?”
“Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them?”
“O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?”
“The people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?”
“For what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?”
“What kind of children are these?”
“Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us?”
“what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?”
“And what wilt thou do unto thy great name?”
“Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?”
“And now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?”
“Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin?”
“Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?”
“Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?”
“O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?”
“How can I go?”
“Shall I go and smite these Philistines?”
“Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand?”
“Shall I pursue after this troop?”
“Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?”
“Shall I go up to the Philistines?”
“Shall I go up against the Philistines?”
“How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?”
“Who am I, O Lord GOD?”
“What one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?”
“Is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?”
“But these sheep, what have they done?”
“For who is able to judge this thy so great a people?”
“Will God indeed dwell on the earth?”
“O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?”
“I have had enough, LORD. Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors?”
“Where is the LORD God of Elijah?”
“Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?”
“What one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?”
“Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered?”
“Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort?”
“For who can judge this thy people, that is so great?”
“Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?”
“O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven?”
“Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?”
“O our God, wilt thou not judge them?”
“Now, O our God, what shall we say after this?”
“Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations?”
“Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel?”
“Doth Job fear God for nought?”
“Why died I not from the womb?”
“Why did the knees prevent me?”
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?”
“Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?”
“What is my strength, that I should hope?”
“What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him?”
“What shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men?”
“Why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?”
“How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?”
“If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?”
“Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?”
“Hast thou eyes of flesh?”
“Then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?”
“Do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?”
“How many are mine iniquities and sins?”
“Hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?”
“Dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?”
“Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?”
“Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”
“Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?”
“Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge?”
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”
“LORD, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me!?”
“But thou, O LORD, how long?”
“In the grave who shall give thee thanks?”
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?”
“And the son of man, that thou visitest him?”
“Why standest thou afar off, O LORD?”
“Doth the wicked contemn God?”
“Who is lord over us?”
“How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD?”
“How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?”
“LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?”
“O LORD, by your hand save me from such people, from those of this world whose reward is in this life?”
“Who is God save the LORD?”
“Who can understand his errors?”
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
“Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?”
“Whom shall I fear?”
“What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?”
“LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?”
“Lord, how long wilt thou look on?”
“Show me, LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is?”
“Now, Lord, what wait I for?”
“When shall I come and appear before God?”
“Why hast thou forgotten me?”
“Where is thy God?”
“Why dost thou cast me off?”
“Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?”
“Hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?”
“Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?”
“Are they not in thy book?”
“I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts?”
“Who will bring me into the strong city?”
“Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off?”
“What I did not steal must I now restore?”
“O God, who is like you?”
“Whom have I in heaven but thee?”
“O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?”
“O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?”
“Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?”
“And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?”
“Will the Lord cast off for ever?”
“Is his mercy clean gone for ever?”
“How long, LORD?”
“Where is their God?”
“O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?”
“Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?”
“Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?”
“That thy people may rejoice in thee?”
“Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead?”
“Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?”
“Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?”
“LORD, why castest thou off my soul?”
“O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee?”
“What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?”
“Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?”
“Who knoweth the power of thine anger?”
“Return, O LORD, how long?”
“LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?”
“Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?”
“Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?”
“O when wilt thou come unto me?”
“Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off?”
“Where is now their God?”
“What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?”
“What can man do unto me?”
“When wilt thou comfort me?”
“How many are the days of thy servant?”
“If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”
“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?”
“Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?”
“How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!?”
“Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee?”
“O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?”
“Who is the LORD?”
“Lord, how long?”
“For how should my name be polluted?”
“Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?”
“Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?”
“Have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?”
“Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me?”
“O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear?”
“Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?”
“Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD?”
“How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?”
“To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear?”
“For how shall I do for the daughter of my people?”
“Doth the way of the wicked prosper?”
“How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein?”
“O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?”
“Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save?”
“Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?”
“Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed?”
“Came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?”
“Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?”
“Dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?”
“But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.”
“Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you exceedingly angry with us?”
“Wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
“Yet say ye, Why? Doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father?”
“Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, hear and act! For your sake, my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name?”
“What wilt thou give?”
“By whom shall Jacob arise?”
“Was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country?”
“Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God?”
“Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?”
“O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?”
“Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance?”
“Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One?”
“Wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?”
“Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?”
“Is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?”
“Was the LORD displeased against the rivers?”
“Was thine anger against the rivers?”
“O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?”
“If then I be a father, where is mine honour?”
“And if I be a master, where is my fear?”
“Wherein have we polluted thee?”
“Why does he not?”
“Wherein have we wearied him?”
“Or, Where is the God of judgment?”
“Wherein shall we return?”
“Will a man rob God?”
“Wherein have we robbed thee?”
“What have we spoken so much against thee?”
“And what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?”
“Now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it?”
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
“Lord, who hath believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
“Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?”
“Lord, who hath believed our report?”
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?”
“How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?”
“Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name?”