Job 19:7

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Pray without ceasing.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?

But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.