Job 5:8

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Blessings for the One Who Seeks God“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

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  • Ps 50:15 : 15 Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!”
  • Ps 37:5 : 5 Commit your future to the LORD! Trust in him, and he will act on your behalf.
  • 1 Pet 4:19 : 19 So then let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls to a faithful Creator as they do good.
  • 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly.
  • Ps 77:1-2 : 1 For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of Asaph. I will cry out to God and call for help! I will cry out to God and he will pay attention to me. 2 In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.
  • Gen 32:7-9 : 7 Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels. 8 “If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought,“then the other camp will be able to escape.” 9 Then Jacob prayed,“O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me,‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’ 10 I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps. 11 Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children. 12 But you said,‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”
  • 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 In his pain Manasseh asked the LORD his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. 13 When he prayed to the LORD, the LORD responded to him and answered favorably his cry for mercy. The LORD brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the LORD is the true God.
  • Job 8:5 : 5 But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,
  • Job 22:21 : 21 “Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.
  • Job 22:27 : 27 You will pray to him and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows to him.
  • Jonah 2:1-7 : 1 Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish 2 and said,“I called out to the LORD from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer. 3 You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me. 4 I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple! 5 Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O LORD, my God. 7 When my life was ebbing away, I called out to the LORD. And my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.

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    3O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

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

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

    6Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.

    7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

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    5But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

    6if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous home.

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    3But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

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    7but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

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    18See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.

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  • Job 7:20-21
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    20If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

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    14Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

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    8A Cry for Death“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!

    9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

    10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

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    4Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

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    15Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.

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    9He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;

  • Job 16:21
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    21and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.

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    9I must endure the LORD’s fury, for I have sinned against him. But then he will defend my cause, and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will witness his deliverance.

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    8I will hurry off to a place that is safe from the strong wind and the gale.”

  • Job 9:28
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    28I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

  • Job 40:8
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    8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

  • Job 36:3
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    3With my knowledge I will speak comprehensively, and to my Creator I will ascribe righteousness.

  • Job 9:35
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    35Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

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    5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

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    8To you, O LORD, I cried out; I begged the Lord for mercy:

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    16As for me, I will call out to God, and the LORD will deliver me.

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    2I cry out for help to God Most High, to the God who vindicates me.

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    28then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

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    1Vindicate me, O God! Fight for me against an ungodly nation! Deliver me from deceitful and evil men!

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    6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

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    2“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

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    35Job’s Appeal“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature– let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.

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    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

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    6let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

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    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

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    8“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

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    2“Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!