Verse 8

But I would seek God and place my cause before the Almighty.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 50:15 : 15 Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.
  • Ps 37:5 : 5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will act.
  • 1 Pet 4:19 : 19 So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator while continuing to do good.
  • 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 When He was reviled, He did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.
  • Ps 77:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician, according to Jeduthun, a psalm of Asaph. 2 My voice cries out to God, and I will call aloud; my voice reaches God, and He listens to me.
  • Gen 32:7-9 : 7 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, 'We went to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you with four hundred men.' 8 Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people with him, along with the flocks, herds, and camels, into two camps. 9 He thought, 'If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp that is left will escape.' 10 Then Jacob said, 'O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 11 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown to your servant. With only my staff, I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 12 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from Esau, for I am afraid of him. He might come and strike me, the mothers, and the children.
  • 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 When he was in distress, he sought the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. 13 He prayed to Him, and the LORD was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea. He brought Manasseh back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
  • Job 8:5 : 5 But if you earnestly seek God and plead for mercy from the Almighty,
  • Job 22:21 : 21 Be reconciled with God now, and at peace with Him; this will bring good to you.
  • Job 22:27 : 27 You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
  • Jonah 2:1-7 : 1 The LORD appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights. 2 Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish. 3 He said, 'I called to the LORD in my distress, and He answered me. From the depths of the grave, I cried out, and You heard my voice.' 4 You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the currents surrounded me. All Your waves and breakers swept over me. 5 I said, 'I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.' 6 The waters engulfed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. 7 To the roots of the mountains, I descended. The earth beneath barred me in forever, but You brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.