Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 12:9

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 12:9 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 12:9. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, everyone should understand that God is in control of everything that happens. It's like when you see something amazing, you know it's made by someone special.

Job 12:9: Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?

Contradiction with Isaiah 45:7

This verse implies that God creates both peace and evil, which may contradict the perception from Job 12:9 about God's acts through nature.

Isaiah 45:7: I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].

Contradiction with Amos 3:6

Suggests that evil can be seen as an act of God, potentially contradicting Job 12:9's sense of God's exclusively praiseworthy actions.

Amos 3:6: Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it]? [be afraid: or, run together?] [the LORD...: or, shall not the LORD do somewhat?]

Contradiction with Lamentations 3:38

Indicates both good and bad come from God's mouth, thereby contradicting the purely constructive view of God’s actions in nature from Job 12:9.

Lamentations 3:38: Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 7:14

States that God has made both prosperity and adversity, which may conflict with the implication in Job 12:9 that nature solely declares God’s positive power.

Ecclesiastes 7:14: In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. [set: Heb. made]
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