Bible Verses about “questioning god”

“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.”

“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.”

“For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”

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

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

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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

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

“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?”

“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?”

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

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

“¶ 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.”

“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.”

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

“¶ To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?”

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

“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.”

“¶ Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble?”

“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.”

“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.”

“¶ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,”

“Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?”

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

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

“¶ 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?”

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