Job 3:26

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

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

Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

They looked, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.

I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.

When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.”

My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.