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.
Job 8:5–7
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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 Esdras 8:47–49
47 For you come far short of being able to love my creature more than I. But you have compared yourself to the unrighteous. Don’t do that! (WEB) 48 Yet in this will you be admirable to the Most High, (WEB) 49 in that you have humbled yourself, as it becomes you, and have not judged… (WEB)
Job 11:13–15
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, 15 then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.
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)
Proverbs 23:17–19
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD. 18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. 19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
Job 22:28–30
28 Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways. 29 When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly. 30 He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”
2 Esdras 12:5–7
5 Behold, I am still weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit. There isn’t even a little strength in me, because of the great fear with which I was frightened tonight. (WEB) 6 Therefore I will now ask the Most High that he would strengthen me to the end.” (WEB) 7 Then I said… (WEB)
2 Esdras 10:23–25
23 What is more than all, the seal of Zion has now lost the seal of her honor, and is delivered into the hands of those who hate us. (WEB) 24 Therefore shake off your great heaviness, and put away from yourself the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty One may be merciful… (WEB)
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