questioning god
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8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways, says the Lord. 9For just as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so also are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.
20O man, who are you to question God? How can the thing that has been formed say to the One who formed him: “Why have you made me this way?”
5But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him. 6But he should ask with faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave on the ocean, which is moved about by the wind and carried away;
2How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and you will not heed? Shall I shout to you while suffering violence, and you will not save? 3Why have you revealed to me iniquity and hardship, to see plunder and injustice opposite me? And there has been judgment, but the opposition is more powerful.
1But the Lord, responding to Job from a whirlwind, said: 2Who is this that wraps sentences in unskilled words? 3Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.
22So then, why, O Lord, have you withdrawn far away? Why have you overlooked us in opportunity, in tribulation?
22So then, why, O Lord, have you withdrawn far away? Why have you overlooked us in opportunity, in tribulation? 23While the impious is arrogant, the poor is enflamed. They are held by the counsels that they devise. 24For the sinner is praised by the desires of his soul, and the iniquitous is blessed. 25The sinner has provoked the Lord; according to the multitude of his wrath, he will not seek him. 26God is not before his sight. His ways are stained at all times. Your judgments are removed from his face. He will be master of all his enemies. 27For he has said in his heart, “I will not be disturbed: from generation to generation without evil.”
1Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?
9Woe to him who contradicts his Maker, a mere shard from an earthen vessel! Should the clay say to the potter, “What are you making?” or, “Your work is not made by your hands?” 10Woe to him who says to his father, “Why did you conceive?” or to a woman, “Why did you give birth?” 11Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, his Maker: Would you question me about the future, concerning my sons, and command me concerning the work of my hands? 12I made the earth, and I created man upon it. My hand stretched out the heavens, and I have commanded all their hosts.
2O God, my God, look upon me. Why have you forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my offenses. 3My God, I will cry out by day, and you will not heed, and by night, and it will not be foolishness for me.
1Unto the end. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me until the end? How long will you turn your face away from me? 2How long can I take counsel in my soul, sorrowing in my heart throughout the day?
2How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and you will not heed? Shall I shout to you while suffering violence, and you will not save?
16For who has known the mind of the Lord, so that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
39MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins? 40NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.
46And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: “Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”