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Romans quotes the Greek translation of Job asking who could ever demand repayment from God. In Job, it highlights divine ownership over all things, saying that no one can challenge this authority. Paul uses it to emphasize that God cannot be obligated.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
LXX Job 41:3
Septuagint
1 Have you not marveled at the things that are said? Nor feared, because it has been prepared by me? 2 For who is the one who stands against me? Or who shall stand against me and endure, when all that is under the heavens is mine? 3 I shall not keep silent by reason of it, and by a powerful word it will show mercy to one just like it. 4 Who shall uncover the face of its garment, and who possibly can enter into the fold of its breast plate?
Romans 11:35
New Testament
33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? 35 Or who has first given to God that God needs to repay him? 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.
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Notes and References
"... Philo of Alexandria (ca. 25 BCE – 50 CE) quotes Old Greek Job 14:4–5 in De mutatione 48.4; 2) Old Greek Job is quoted in the New Testament (Job 5:12–13 in 1 Corinthians 3:19; Job 13:16 in Philippians 1:19; Job 41:3 in Romans 11:35) ..."
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