Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Job 40:2, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 1 Corinthians 2:16
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
- Isaiah 40:14
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 unde…
- Romans 11:34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
- Job 33:13
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
- Isaiah 45:9
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…
- Isaiah 50:8
He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
- Romans 9:19
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
- Matthew 20:11
And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
- Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
- Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
- Ezekiel 18:2
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on …
- Job 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
More to meet God in Job
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.