# Questions Scripture asks and where it answers 60 questions asked in one place in Scripture and answered in another (“What is man?” Job 7 → Psalm 8 → Hebrews 2), by theme. Source: https://besorah.bible/questions — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html ## Who God is - [Psalms 2:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/2?v=1) — Answered in Psalms 2:4-9 · Acts 4:25-28 · Revelation 19:15 Why do the nations rage? God laughs, and sets His king on Zion. The early community prays this psalm when the rulers gather against Jesus. - [Psalms 24:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/24?v=8) — Answered in Psalms 24:10 · 1 Corinthians 2:8 · Jacob 2:1 · Revelation 19:16 Who is the King of glory? The LORD of hosts; the New Covenant calls Jesus the Lord of glory. - [Isaiah 40:18 · Isaiah 40:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=18) — Answered in Exodus 15:11 · Psalms 113:4-6 · Micah 7:18-19 To whom will you liken God? Who is like You among the gods? No one: there is no God like the LORD who pardons. - [Psalms 139:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/139?v=7) — Answered in Jeremiah 23:23-24 · Amos 9:2-3 · Acts 17:27-28 Where can I flee from Your presence? Nowhere; Jeremiah and Amos say it as a warning, Paul as nearness. - [Daniel 3:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/3?v=15) — Answered in Daniel 3:28-29 · Daniel 6:27-28 Who is the god who can deliver you from my hands? Nebuchadnezzar and Darius answer it themselves. - [Malachi 3:2 · Nahum 1:6 · Revelation 6:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/malachi/3?v=2) — Answered in Nahum 1:7 · Malachi 3:3-4 · Revelation 7:9-17 Who can stand? The question is asked of the day of the LORD in the prophets and again in Revelation, which answers with the multitude who have washed their robes. - [Genesis 18:14 · Jeremiah 32:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=14) — Answered in Jeremiah 32:17 · Luke 1:37 · Matthew 19:26 Is anything too hard for the LORD? Sarah's question, repeated in Jeremiah, is answered by the angel's words to Mary. - [Genesis 18:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=25) — Answered in Deuteronomy 32:4 · Romans 3:5-6 · Romans 9:14 Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just? All His ways are justice; Paul asks it again and says: God forbid. - [Genesis 17:17 · Genesis 18:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=17) — Answered in Genesis 21:1-2 · Romans 4:19-21 · Hebrews 11:11-12 Shall a child be born to a man a hundred years old? He was. - [Exodus 3:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=13) — Answered in Exodus 3:14-15 · John 8:58 · Philippians 2:9-11 What is His name? I AM. Jesus takes the name on his lips; Paul says God gave him the name above every name. - [Exodus 5:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=2) — Answered in Exodus 7:5 · Exodus 9:16 · Exodus 14:18 · Romans 9:17 Who is the LORD, that I should obey Him? The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD. - [Exodus 33:18 · John 14:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/33?v=18) — Met in John 1:18 · John 14:9 · Colossians 1:15 · Hebrews 1:3 · 2 Corinthians 4:6 Show me Your glory. Show us the Father. Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. - [Judges 13:17-18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/13?v=17-18) — Answered in Isaiah 9:5 What is your name? Why do you ask? It is wonderful. Isaiah gives a child the name Wonderful Counsellor. ## What a person is - [Job 7:17-18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/7?v=17-18) — Answered in Psalms 8:5-7 · Hebrews 2:6-9 Job turns Psalm 8's wonder into a complaint: what is man, that You examine him every morning? The psalm asks it in awe; Hebrews 2 answers it by pointing to the one man crowned with glory. - [Isaiah 5:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=4) — Answered in Isaiah 5:7 · Matthew 21:33-43 · John 15:1-5 What more could I have done for my vineyard? Isaiah names the vineyard; Jesus tells it again and says he is the vine. - [Genesis 3:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=9) — Answered in Luke 19:10 · Luke 15:4-7 Where are you? The first question God asks. The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. - [Genesis 4:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=9) — Answered in 1 John 3:11-18 · Luke 10:36-37 Am I my brother's keeper? John answers by the contrast of Cain and love; Jesus answers by naming the neighbour. - [Luke 10:29](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/10?v=29) — Answered in Luke 10:36-37 · Leviticus 19:18 · Leviticus 19:33-34 Who is my neighbour? Even the stranger: Leviticus already says to love him as yourself. ## Suffering and justice - [Job 21:7 · Jeremiah 12:1 · Psalms 73:3 · Malachi 3:14-15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/21?v=7) — Answered in Psalms 37:1-2 · Psalms 73:17-19 · Malachi 3:16-21 Why do the wicked prosper? Job, Jeremiah and Asaph all ask it. Asaph's answer comes in the sanctuary, when he sees their end; Malachi's is the book of remembrance. - [Psalms 22:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/22?v=2) — Answered in Psalms 22:25 · Matthew 27:46 · Hebrews 5:7-8 My God, why have You forsaken me? The same psalm turns: He has not hidden His face from the afflicted, but heard when he cried. Jesus takes up the first verse on the cross; Hebrews says he was heard. - [Psalms 74:1 · Psalms 77:8-9 · Psalms 79:5 · Psalms 89:47 · Lamentations 5:20 · Isaiah 49:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/74?v=1) — Answered in Isaiah 54:7-8 · Psalms 30:6 · Lamentations 3:22-23 · Lamentations 3:31-33 · Isaiah 49:15-16 · Jeremiah 31:35-36 · Romans 11:1-2 Has God cast off His people forever? Asked again and again; answered by Isaiah (a moment in anger, everlasting kindness), Jeremiah (as long as the sun and moon) and Paul (God has not rejected His people). - [Mark 4:41](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/4?v=41) — Answered in Psalms 107:28-30 · Psalms 89:10 · Job 38:8-11 · Jonah 1:15 Who is this, that even wind and sea obey him? The Scriptures have already said who stills the sea. - [Habakkuk 1:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/1?v=13) — Answered in Habakkuk 2:4 · Romans 3:25-26 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; why do You look on the treacherous? The righteous lives by faithfulness; Paul says God was shown just in dealing with sin. - [Jeremiah 8:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/8?v=22) — Answered in Jeremiah 30:17 · Jeremiah 33:6 · Exodus 15:26 · Malachi 3:20 Is there no balm in Gilead? The LORD answers: I will restore you to health, I am the LORD who heals you. - [Malachi 2:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/malachi/2?v=17) — Answered in Malachi 3:1-5 · Matthew 11:10 · John 5:22 Where is the God of justice? He is coming to His temple, and will draw near for judgment. - [Deuteronomy 29:23 · 1 Kings 9:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=23) — Answered in Deuteronomy 29:24-27 · 1 Kings 9:9 · Jeremiah 22:8-9 Why has the LORD done thus to this land? Because they forsook the covenant. The question is asked of the land and answered by the text. - [John 9:2 · Luke 13:2 · Job 4:7 · Ezekiel 18:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/9?v=2) — Answered in John 9:3 · Luke 13:3-5 · Ezekiel 18:20 · Job 42:7 Does suffering come because of sin? Not always. Jesus and Ezekiel say no; the LORD says Job's friends did not speak rightly. ## Sin and forgiveness - [Job 9:2 · Job 25:4 · Psalms 130:3 · Psalms 143:2 · Proverbs 20:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/9?v=2) — Answered in Psalms 130:4 · Isaiah 53:11 · Romans 3:21-26 · Galatians 2:16 · 1 John 1:9 How can a person be right before God? Job says no one can; the psalmist says forgiveness is with God; Paul and John say how it was done. - [Jeremiah 13:23 · Jeremiah 17:9 · Ezekiel 33:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/13?v=23) — Answered in Ezekiel 36:26-27 · Psalms 51:12 · Jeremiah 31:31-33 · John 3:3-6 · 2 Corinthians 5:17 Can a person change? The heart is deceitful, the skin cannot change its colour. The answer is a new heart given, not made. - [Mark 2:7](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=7) — Answered in Isaiah 43:25 · Psalms 103:3 · Mark 2:10 Who can forgive sins but God alone? That is exactly what Isaiah and the psalmist say God does. - [Romans 7:24](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/7?v=24) — Answered in Romans 7:25 · Romans 8:1-2 Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus our Lord. ## Death and hope - [Job 14:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/14?v=14) — Answered in Isaiah 26:19 · Daniel 12:2 · Psalms 16:10 · 1 Corinthians 15:20-22 · John 11:25-26 If a man dies, will he live again? Job waits for his release; Isaiah and Daniel answer that the dead will rise, and the New Covenant says it has begun. - [Ezekiel 37:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/37?v=3) — Answered in Ezekiel 37:12-14 · Isaiah 26:19 · Daniel 12:2 · Romans 8:11 Can these bones live? You know, O Lord. Ezekiel is told to prophesy; Paul says the Spirit will make mortal bodies alive. - [Hosea 13:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/13?v=14) — Answered in 1 Corinthians 15:54-57 · Isaiah 25:8 O death, where are your plagues? Paul sets Hosea's question in the mouth of the resurrection: death is swallowed up in victory. - [Ecclesiastes 3:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/3?v=21) — Answered in Ecclesiastes 12:7 · 2 Corinthians 5:8 · Luke 23:43 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward? The spirit returns to God who gave it. ## How long? - [Psalms 13:2-3 · Psalms 94:3 · Habakkuk 1:2 · Zechariah 1:12 · Revelation 6:10 · 2 Peter 3:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/13?v=2-3) — Answered in Psalms 13:6 · Habakkuk 2:3 · Zechariah 1:13-17 · Revelation 6:11 · 2 Peter 3:8-9 · Hebrews 10:37-39 How long? The cry is the same in the Psalms, the Prophets, the martyrs under the altar and the scoffers of the last days. The answer each time: the vision waits for its appointed time, and what looks like delay is patience. - [Daniel 8:13 · Daniel 12:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/8?v=13) — Answered in Daniel 12:7 · Revelation 10:5-7 · Revelation 12:14 How long until the end of these wonders? A time, times and half a time. ## Wisdom and knowing - [Job 28:12 · Job 28:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/28?v=12) — Answered in Job 28:28 · Proverbs 8:22-31 · Proverbs 9:10 · 1 Corinthians 1:24 · Colossians 2:2-3 Where is wisdom found? Job 28 says only God knows the way to it; Proverbs 8 has wisdom speak for herself; Paul says Christ is the wisdom of God. - [Job 38:4-7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/38?v=4-7) — Answered in Proverbs 8:27-31 · Proverbs 3:19 · Psalms 104:5-9 · John 1:1-3 · Colossians 1:16-17 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Proverbs answers who was there; John and Colossians say through whom it was made. - [Job 11:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/11?v=7) — Answered in Deuteronomy 29:28 · 1 Corinthians 2:10-12 · Romans 11:33 Can you find out the deep things of God? Not by searching; they are revealed, and the Spirit searches them. - [Isaiah 40:13 · Job 41:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=13) — Answered in 1 Corinthians 2:10-16 · Romans 11:34-36 Who has known the mind of the LORD? Isaiah's question is quoted by Paul, who answers it for the believer: we have the mind of Christ. - [Ecclesiastes 6:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/6?v=12) — Answered in Micah 6:8 Who knows what is good for a person? Ecclesiastes leaves the question open; Micah says it has been told you. - [Isaiah 33:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/33?v=18) — Answered in 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 Where is the scribe? Where is the one who weighs? Paul's answer: God has made foolish the wisdom of the world. - [Proverbs 30:4 · Deuteronomy 30:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/30?v=4) — Answered in John 3:13 · Romans 10:6-9 · Ephesians 4:8-10 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? What is his name, and the name of his son? The New Covenant answers with a name. - [Ecclesiastes 1:3 · Ecclesiastes 3:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/1?v=3) — Answered in Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 · Romans 8:20-21 · 1 Corinthians 15:58 What does a person gain from all his toil? Fear God and keep His commandments; creation was subjected in hope; your labour in the Lord is not in vain. - [John 18:38](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/18?v=38) — Answered in John 14:6 · John 17:17 · Psalms 119:160 What is truth? Your word is truth; I am the truth. ## Worship and presence - [Psalms 15:1 · Psalms 24:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/15?v=1) — Answered in Psalms 24:4 · Psalms 15:2-5 · Isaiah 33:15-16 · Matthew 5:8 Who may dwell on Your holy hill? Clean hands and a pure heart; Isaiah 33 says the same; Jesus names the pure in heart. - [Micah 6:6-7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/micah/6?v=6-7) — Answered in Micah 6:8 · Hosea 6:6 · Psalms 51:18-19 · Matthew 9:13 With what shall I come before the LORD? Not thousands of rams: justice, kindness, humility. Hosea and the psalmist say the same; Jesus quotes it. - [Exodus 17:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=7) — Answered in Exodus 33:14-16 · Matthew 1:23 · Matthew 28:20 Is the LORD among us or not? My presence will go with you; Immanuel, God with us; I am with you always. - [1 Kings 8:27 · Isaiah 66:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/8?v=27) — Answered in John 1:14 · John 2:19-21 · 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 · Ephesians 2:19-22 Will God indeed dwell on the earth? The Word became flesh and dwelt among us; the temple he spoke of was his body; and now the community is a dwelling for God. - [Luke 10:25 · Matthew 19:16 · Acts 16:30 · Acts 2:37](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/10?v=25) — Answered in Deuteronomy 6:5 · Leviticus 19:18 · Acts 16:31 · Acts 2:38 · John 6:29 What must I do? Love God and neighbour; believe; repent. - [Psalms 78:19-20 · Numbers 11:21-22 · 2 Kings 4:43 · Mark 8:4 · John 6:5-9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/78?v=19-20) — Answered in Numbers 11:23 · 2 Kings 4:44 · Mark 8:6-9 · John 6:11-13 Can God spread a table in the wilderness? Moses, Elisha and Jesus are each asked how; each time the answer is that the LORD's hand is not short. ## The Messiah - [Job 9:32-33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/9?v=32-33) — Met in 1 Timothy 2:5 · Hebrews 8:6 · Hebrews 9:15 Job longs for an umpire to lay a hand on both God and himself. The letters name the one mediator. - [Isaiah 53:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/53?v=1) — Answered in John 12:37-41 · Romans 10:14-17 Who has believed what we heard? John and Paul both say how it was heard and refused. - [Isaiah 63:1-2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/63?v=1-2) — Answered in Revelation 19:11-16 Who is this coming from Edom, in crimsoned garments? Revelation shows the rider in a robe dipped in blood, treading the winepress. - [Zechariah 13:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/13?v=6) — Answered in Zechariah 12:10 · John 19:34-37 · John 20:27 · Revelation 1:7 What are these wounds on your back? Zechariah has the wounded one answer and speaks of looking on the one they pierced; John says it was fulfilled. - [Genesis 22:7-8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=7-8) — Answered in John 1:29 · Revelation 5:6-12 Where is the lamb? God Himself will provide the lamb. John the Baptist points: Behold the Lamb of God. - [Matthew 11:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/11?v=3) — Answered in Isaiah 35:5-6 · Isaiah 61:1 · Luke 7:21-22 Are you the one who is to come? Jesus answers by what Isaiah said the Messiah would do. - [Matthew 22:42-45](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/22?v=42-45) — Answered in Psalms 110:1 · Isaiah 9:6 · Romans 1:3-4 Whose son is the Messiah? David's son, and David's Lord. - [Revelation 5:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/revelation/5?v=2) — Answered in Revelation 5:5-9 · Daniel 7:13-14 Who is worthy to open the scroll? The Lion of Judah, the Lamb; and the one like a son of man who received dominion.