Jaques Ellul commenting on Jonah's citing Scripture against God in Jonah 4:2

"This is a grave warning; it is not enough to lean on a biblical text to be right; it is not enough to adduce biblical arguments, whether theological or pietistic, to be in tune with God. All this may denote opposition to God. It may even be a way of disobeying him. The using of God's word to tempt God is a danger which threatens all Christians. Every time the Christian thinks he has God's word in store to be used as needed, he commits this sin, which is that of Satan himself against Christ. This is the attitude of the historian who dissects Scripture to set it against Scripture, of the theologian who uses a text to construct his doctrine or philosophy, or of the simple Christian who opens his Bible to find himself justified there, or to find his arguments against non-Christians or against Christians who do not hold the same views, arguments which show how far superior my position is to that of others."

And again,

"When we find in the Bible that which justifies us in our own eyes, when in reading the Bible we say: 'I was right,' when we see in it an argument for us and against others, when we are righteous in our own judgment, we can be certain that like Jonah we have turned the revelation against God. For what revelation teaches us about ourselves is all to the effect that we are not righteous, that we have no means of justifying ourselves, that we have no possibility of disputing with God, that we have no right to condemn others and be in the right against them, and that in this extreme distress only a gracious act of God which is external to us (though it becomes internal) can save us. This is what Scripture teaches us, and if we stick to this, reading the Bible is useful, healthy and brings forth fruit in us."