38 questions Job asked across 1 book
“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?”
“Is my strength the strength of stones?”
“But what doth your arguing reprove?”
“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?”
“But how should man be just with God?”
“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?”
“Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?”
“Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?”
“Will ye speak wickedly for God?”
“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?”
“Shall vain words have an end?”
“How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?”
“As for me, is my complaint to man?”
“Do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?”
“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?”
“Have ye not asked them that go by the way?”
“Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?”
“How hast thou helped him that is without power?”
“To whom hast thou uttered words?”
“Where shall wisdom be found?”
“Whence then cometh wisdom?”
“Why then should I think upon a maid?”
“Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge?”