Contradictions and Paradoxes in Psalms 18:17

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Psalms 18:17 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Psalms 18:17. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to David, God helped him escape from people who were too strong and didn't like him. God protected him because he couldn't do it alone.

Psalms 18:17: He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

Contradiction with Job 12:9-10

Contradicts the notion of divine deliverance or intervention in troubles, suggesting God's omnipotence includes causing the predicaments.

Job 12:9-10: Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 9:11

Contradicts God's deliverance by emphasizing time and chance rather than divine intervention.

Ecclesiastes 9:11: I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Contradiction with Lamentations 3:8

Contradicts God's readiness to rescue by expressing feelings of unanswered prayers and divine silence.

Lamentations 3:8: Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

Contradiction with 2 Corinthians 12:8-9

Contradicts by showing God's reluctance to remove Paul's adversity, instead offering grace to endure it.

2 Corinthians 12:8-9: For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

Contradiction with Habakkuk 1:2

Expresses the prophet's frustration at God's seeming inaction, contradicting the promise of deliverance in troubles.

Habakkuk 1:2: O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out unto thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not save!
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