Ecclesiastes 6:10 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:10

10: Everything has already been decided. It was known long ago what each person would be. So there's no use arguing with God about your destiny.

Job 9:32

  1. "God is not a mortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial.

Isaiah 45:9

  1. "Destruction is certain for those who argue with their Creator. Does a clay pot ever argue with its maker? Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying, `Stop, you are doing it wrong!' Does the pot exclaim, `How clumsy can you be!'
  2. How terrible it would be if a newborn baby said to its father and mother, `Why was I born? Why did you make me this way?'"

Job 40:2

  1. "Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? You are God's critic, but do you have the answers?"

Job 33:13

  1. So why are you bringing a charge against him? You say, `He does not respond to people's complaints.'

Romans 9:19

  1. Well then, you might say, "Why does God blame people for not listening? Haven't they simply done what he made them do?"
  2. No, don't say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to criticize God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who made it, "Why have you made me like this?"

Genesis 3:17

  1. And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat, I have placed a curse on the ground. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
  2. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
  3. All your life you will sweat to produce food, until your dying day. Then you will return to the ground from which you came. For you were made from dust, and to the dust you will return."

Ecclesiastes 3:15

  1. Whatever exists today and whatever will exist in the future has already existed in the past. For God calls each event back in its turn.

Job 14:1

  1. "How frail is humanity! How short is life, and how full of trouble!
  2. Like a flower, we blossom for a moment and then wither. Like the shadow of a passing cloud, we quickly disappear.
  3. Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature and demand an accounting from me?
  4. Who can create purity in one born impure? No one!

Psalms 39:6

  1. We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth for someone else to spend.

Job 9:3

  1. If someone wanted to take God to court, would it be possible to answer him even once in a thousand times?
  2. For God is so wise and so mighty. Who has ever challenged him successfully?

Psalms 82:6

  1. I say, `You are gods and children of the Most High.
  2. But in death you are mere men. You will fall as any prince, for all must die.'"

Jeremiah 49:19

  1. I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan, leaping on the sheep in the pasture. I will chase Edom from its land, and I will appoint the leader of my choice. For who is like me, and who can challenge me? What ruler can oppose my will?"

Ecclesiastes 1:9

  1. History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.
  2. What can you point to that is new? How do you know it didn't already exist long ago?
  3. We don't remember what happened in those former times. And in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.

Psalms 103:15

  1. Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.

Genesis 3:9

  1. The LORD God called to Adam, "Where are you?"
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