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.
Job 8:4–6
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Job 22:22–24
22 Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents 24 and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
2 Maccabees 1:4–6
4 May God open your heart to his law and his statutes, and make peace, (WEB) 5 and listen to your requests, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time. (WEB) 6 Now we are praying for you here. (WEB)
Jeremiah 26:12–14
12 But Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. 13 So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might… 14 …
1 Maccabees 9:45–47
45 For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us. Moreover the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that side, and marsh and thicket. There is no place to escape. (WEB) 46 Now therefore cry to heaven, that you may be delivered out of the hand of your enemies.” (WEB) 47 S… (WEB)
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…
Proverbs 24:17–19
17 Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles, 18 or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him. 19 Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.
Baruch 4:17–19
17 But I—how can I help you? (WEB) 18 For he who brought these calamities upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies. (WEB) 19 Go your way, O my children. Go your way, for I am left desolate. (WEB)
Job 11:12–14
12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man! 13 As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him, 14 if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
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