Job 9:15 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁵ [for if I be righteous will he not hearken to me; shall I not supplicate his decision?

³⁸ whatever prayer, whatever supplication any man shall make, when they know every one the plague of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house; ³⁹ thou indeed wilt hearken from heaven; from thy settled habitation and be merciful, and do and give to every man as thou knowest his heart [for thou alone knowest the hearts of all the children of men]

¹³ and prayed to him, and he hearkened to him and heard his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. So Manasses knew that the Lord himself is God.

⁸ [b] No, indeed; but notwithstanding this, let me supplicate the Lord. And call upon the Lord, the master of all,

⁵ But rise thou betimes and supplicate the Lord Almighty.

² and say to the Lord, Teach me not to be impious. Now, for what cause hast thou thus condemned me?

¹⁵ If I indeed am impious, Woe is me.

²⁷ And when thou prayest to him, he will hearken to thee, and will enable thee to pay thy vows;

⁷ For truth and argument proceed from him; and he would bring my cause to an issue.

³¹ Because one saith to the Almighty, "I have taken, I will not again take a pledge: ³² I will look beyond myself; do thou shew me: If I have done iniquity, I will do so no more."

⁹ They set out with weeping; but I will bring them up with consolation, causing them to rest at fountains of water in a straight road; and in it they shall not be led astray, for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first born.

³ Therefore I turned my face to the Lord my God, to seek a prayer and supplication by fasting and sackcloth.

¹⁸ incline, my God, thine ear and hear. Open thine eyes and behold our desolation and that of thy city which is called by thy name. For we do not for our own righteousness present our piteous case before thee; but we cast ourselves upon thy tender mercies, Lord, which are many.

⁴ For though I am not conscious to myself of an' thing amiss, yet even in that case I am not justified; but he who trieth me is the Lord.

²³ who when he was reviled, did not revile again, when he suffered, did not threaten; but committed himself to him who judgeth righteously;