Job 9:15
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.
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- Job 10:15 : 15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.
- Job 8:5 : 5 If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to the Almighty.
- Job 10:2 : 2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me.
- 1 Kgs 8:38-39 : 38 whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, [or] by all your people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: 39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
- 2 Chr 33:13 : 13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh he was God.
- Job 5:8 : 8 "But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;
- Job 22:27 : 27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
- Job 23:7 : 7 There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.
- Job 34:31-32 : 31 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. 32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
- Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
- Dan 9:3 : 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- Dan 9:18 : 18 My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.
- 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
- 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
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2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, For in your sight no man living is righteous.
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15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.
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5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
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9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
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21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!
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6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.