Job 8:6

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Job 8:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

5 But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,

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

7 Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.

8 Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

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Job 1:8

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

Job 4:6

Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

Job 4:7

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

Job 21:14

Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Job 21:15

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

Job 16:17

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Psalms 26:5

I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

Psalms 26:6

I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.

1 John 3:19

And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:

1 John 3:20

Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

1 John 3:21

Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,

1 John 3:22

and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

Psalms 44:23

Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

Psalms 59:4

For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice.

Psalms 59:5

O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah

Isaiah 51:9

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

Job 22:24

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

Job 22:25

then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.

Job 22:26

Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

Job 22:27

You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.

Job 22:28

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Job 22:29

When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.

Job 22:30

He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”

Isaiah 3:10

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.