Job 9:16
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
BSB
ASV
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.
KJV
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
If I had called, and he had answered me,.... Mr. Broughton reads the words, "if I cry, will he answer me?" as if Job had some doubt upon his mind whether God would vouchsafe to answer him, though he should make his supplication to him, as he proposed; seeing he had so sorely afflicted him, and still continued his hand upon him; or the words may be rendered, "though I have called, and he has answered" (q), in times past.
If I had called, and he had answered - I could scarcely suppose, such is his majesty and such his holiness, that he could condescend to notice a being so mean, and in every respect so infinitely beneath his notice. These sentiments sufficiently confuted that slander of his friends, who said he was presumptuous, had not becoming notions of the majesty of God, and used blasphemous expressions against his sovereign authority.
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Psalms 126:1When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
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Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.
“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They…
You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.
I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
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Judges 6:13“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the…
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“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him,…
Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.
