Rhetorical

“If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?”

“Is any thing too hard for the LORD?”

“Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck?”

“If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?”

“Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?”

“What is this dream that thou hast dreamed?”

“How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

“Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?”

“What deed is this that ye have done?”

“Who shall rouse him up?”

“For am I in the place of God?”

“Who hath made man's mouth?”

“Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother?”

“And what are we, that ye murmur against us?”

“Wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight?”

“If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days?”

“Wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey?”

“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me?”

“And what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?”

“Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?”

“Have I now any power at all to say any thing?”

“How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?”

“Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel?”

“Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?”

“Hath he said, and shall he not do it?”

“Who shall stir him up?”

“Who can live when God does this?”

“How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”

“What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?”

“What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?”

“Ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?”

“Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?”

“Hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?”

“Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?”

“Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?”

“How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?”

“Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?”

“Have not I commanded thee?”

“Why hast thou troubled us?”

“Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?”

“Is not the LORD gone out before thee?”

“Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?”

“Have not I sent thee?”

“What have I done now in comparison of you?”

“Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?”

“Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?”

“Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?”

“Now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?”

“Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess?”

“Now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab?”

“I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?”

“What is sweeter than honey?”

“Why will ye go with me? Are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?”

“Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? Would ye stay for them from having husbands?”

“Hearest thou not, my daughter?”

“Have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee?”

“Shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?”

“Is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast?”

“But if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him?”

“Then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts?”

“See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?”

“Is it not wheat harvest to day?”

“How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found?”

“Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD?”

“Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped?”

“After whom is the king of Israel come out?”

“If a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?”

“For who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?”

“What do these Hebrews here?”

“For wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master?”

“Who will hearken unto you in this matter?”

“Shall the sword devour for ever?”

“Whose is the land?”

“Died Abner as a fool dieth?”

“Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?”

“How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed?”

“Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?”

“Why build ye not me an house of cedar?”

“Shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife?”

“Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth?”

“Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?”

“Goest thou also with us?”

“Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us?”

“Art not thou a seer?”

“Hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests?”

“What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?”

“Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh?”

“How long have I to live , that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?”

“And can I discern between good and evil?”

“And why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?”

“Is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?”

“Why hast thou done so?”

“Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?”

“Will God indeed dwell on the earth?”

“For what have I done to thee?”

“Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?”

“Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day?”

“Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day?”

“Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy?”

“My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?”

“If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee?”

“See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head?”

“But who slew all these?”

“Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words?”

“Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it?”

“Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?”

“Is not the LORD your God with you?”

“Who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him?”

“Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?”

“Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?”

“Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations?”

“Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?”

“Why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?”

“Should such a man as I flee?”

“If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?”

“Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?”

“Shall mortal man be more just than God?”

“Is my strength the strength of stones?”

“Doth God pervert judgment?”

“Can the rush grow up without mire?”

“Hast thou eyes of flesh?”

“Should not the multitude of words be answered?”

“Canst thou by searching find out God?”

“Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?”

“Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?”

“Do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?”

“Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?”

“Art thou the first man that was born?”

“What is man, that he should be clean?”

“Shall the earth be forsaken for thee?”

“Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth?”

“As for me, is my complaint to man?”

“Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous?”

“Thou sayest, How doth God know?”

“How hast thou helped him that is without power?”

“Why then should I think upon a maid?”

“When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?”

“If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him?”

“Will he esteem thy riches?”

“Who teacheth like him?”

“Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?”

“Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?”

“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?”

“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?”

“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?”

“Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”

“Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks?”

“Hast thou given the horse strength?”

“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?”

“Hast thou an arm like God?”

“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?”

“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”

“In the grave who shall give thee thanks?”

“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

“Who is God save the LORD?”

“Who can understand his errors?”

“Whom shall I fear?”

“Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?”

“Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?”

“Are they not in thy book?”

“In God I trust and am not afraid. What can man do to me?”

“Why leap ye, ye high hills?”

“And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?”

“Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead?”

“Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?”

“Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?”

“Who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD?”

“What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?”

“Who knoweth the power of thine anger?”

“He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?”

“He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct?”

“Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?”

“Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?”

“Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?”

“What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest?”

“What can man do unto me?”

“What shall be given unto thee?”

“If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”

“Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?”

“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 can stand before his cold?”

“Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?”

“Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?”

“Doth not wisdom cry?”

“Is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?”

“But a wounded spirit who can bear?”

“But a faithful man who can find?”

“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?”

“I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?”

“How can a man then understand his own way?”

“If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?”

“Seest thou a man diligent in his business?”

“Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?”

“Doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it?”

“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?”

“But who is able to stand before envy?”

“Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words?”

“Who can find a virtuous woman?”

“What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?”

“See, this is new?”

“For what can the man do that cometh after the king?”

“Who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool?”

“Who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?”

“What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?”

“Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?”

“But how can one be warm alone?”

“And what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?”

“And what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?”

“Do not all go to one place?”

“What hath the wise more than the fool?”

“Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?”

“Who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?”

“For who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?”

“Why shouldest thou destroy thyself?”

“Why shouldest thou die before thy time?”

“That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?”

“Who is as the wise man?”

“What doest thou?”

“For who can tell him when it shall be?”

“Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion?”

“And what shall be after him, who can tell him?”

“How shall I put it on?”

“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?”

“Are not my princes altogether kings?”

“Is not Calno as Carchemish?”

“Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

“Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?”

“The LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?”

“Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?”

“When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?”

“He made me not?”

“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?”

“Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?”

“And of ancient times, that I have formed it?”

“Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?”

“Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?”

“With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?”

“To whom then will ye liken God?”

“Have ye not known?”

“To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal?”

“Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these?”

“Hast thou not known?”

“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 gave Jacob for a spoil , and Israel to the robbers?”

“I will work, and who shall let it?”

“Shall ye not know it?”

“Have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it?”

“Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?”

“And shall I make the residue thereof an abomination?”

“What makest thou?”

“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?”

“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?”

“Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?”

“Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away?”

“Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?”

“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?”

“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?”

“Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?”

“Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?”

“Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?”

“How shall I pardon thee for this?”

“Shall I not visit for these things?”

“Shall I not visit for these things?”

“Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?”

“Do they provoke me to anger?”

“Shall I not visit them for these things?”

“Who would not fear thee, O King of nations?”

“What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee?”

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?”

“Who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?”

“Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?”

“Who can know it?”

“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?”

“Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol?”

“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?”

“What is the chaff to the wheat?”

“Is not my word like as a fire?”

“Lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished?”

“For who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me?”