18 O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest. 19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. 20 My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
Job 16:18–20
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Job 19:20–22
20 My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. 22 Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Job 19:6–8
6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me. 7 Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. 8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
Job 11:4–6
4 You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’ 5 But if only God would speak and open His lips against you, 6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity d…
Lamentations 3:58–60
58 You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life. 59 You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause! 60 You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
Job 31:34–36
34 because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside— 35 (Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment. 36 Surely I woul…
Psalms 22:1–3
1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning? 2 I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I h…
Job 27:1–3
1 Job continued his discourse: 2 “As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul— 3 as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
Job 13:2–4
2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. 3 Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God. 4 You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
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