Job 5:8

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

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  • 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.

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    3If only I knew where to find him, so that I might come to his dwelling.

    4I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

    5I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me.

    6Would he contend with me in his great power? No, he would instead give me strength.

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  • Job 8:5-6
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    5But if you earnestly seek God and plead for mercy from the Almighty,

    6if you are pure and upright, surely now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous dwelling.

  • Job 13:3
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    3But I desire to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to reason with God.

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

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  • Job 13:18-19
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    18See now, I have prepared my case; I know I will be vindicated.

    19Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

    21Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • Job 13:14-15
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    14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

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  • Job 6:8-10
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    8Oh, that my request would be granted, and that God would fulfill my hope.

    9That God would be willing to crush me, to let loose His hand and cut me off!

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    4Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

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    15Even if I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I could only plead for mercy with my judge.

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    9He performs great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

  • Job 16:21
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    21Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as one does for his neighbor.

  • Mic 7:9
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    8See, I would flee far away; I would stay in the wilderness forever. Selah.

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    28I still dread all my suffering, for I know You will not hold me innocent.

  • Job 40:8
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    8Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

  • Job 36:3
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    3I will bring my knowledge from far away and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

  • Job 9:35
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  • Job 19:5
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    5If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

  • Ps 30:8
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    8O LORD, by Your favor, You made my mountain stand strong; but when You hid Your face, I was terrified.

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    2Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, for in You my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until calamities pass by.

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    6Do You search for my iniquity and investigate my sin?

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    2Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

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    35Oh, that someone would hear me! I sign now my defense; let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write out his charges in a book.

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    14what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

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    2If only my grief could be weighed and my calamity placed together on the scales!