Bible Verses About Questioning God
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for questioning god, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,183 votes, led by Isaiah 55:8-9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Questioning God
Isaiah 55:8-9261 votes
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
Romans 9:20261 votes
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?
James 1:5-6198 votes
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.
Habakkuk 1:2-3167 votes
O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Job 38:1-3156 votes
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Psalms 10:1-18146 votes
Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Psalms 10:1144 votes
Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Jeremiah 12:1136 votes
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?
Isaiah 45:9-12106 votes
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?
Psalms 22:1-2101 votes
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Psalms 13:1-297 votes
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
1 Corinthians 2:1695 votes
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Habakkuk 1:293 votes
O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Lamentations 3:39-4075 votes
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Matthew 27:4674 votes
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?
Job 7:2071 votes
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
1 Corinthians 13:1269 votes
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Job 38:1-4168 votes
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Malachi 3:13-1557 votes
Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
James 1:554 votes
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.
Psalms 74:1-2351 votes
O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
James 1:649 votes
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.
Psalms 22:146 votes
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Hebrews 4:1646 votes
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Psalms 73:2-545 votes
But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
What does the Bible say about questioning god?
Readers most often cite Isaiah 55:8-9 on the subject of questioning god. Across 4,183 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 9:20, James 1:5-6, Habakkuk 1:2-3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.