Job 16:20
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
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- Job 12:4-5 : 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. 5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
- Job 16:4 : 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
- Job 17:2 : 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
- Ps 109:4 : 4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
- Ps 142:2 : 2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
- Hos 12:4-5 : 4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us; 5 Even the LORD God of sts; the LORD is his memorial.
- Luke 6:11-12 : 11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. 12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
- Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
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