Cross references

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever exists was named long ago, and it is known what man is; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:10 BSB

Ecclesiastes 6:10 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 8 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 9:32 (8 votes) and Isaiah 45:9–10 (7 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 3 to 1 Corinthians 10.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 6:10 point to?

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  1. Job 9:328 votes

    For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

  2. Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’? Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

  3. Job 40:26 votes

    “Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

  4. And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. …

  5. Job 33:134 votes

    Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

  6. What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.

  7. Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

  8. One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?” But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

  9. If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand. God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

  10. “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. …

  11. Psalm 39:63 votes

    Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 6:10?

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