'Before God' in the Bible
And the earth [was] corrupted before God, and the earth was filled [with] violence.
And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.
Now listen to my voice; I will advise you, and may God be with you. You be for the people before God, and you bring the issues to God.
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem; he summoned the elders of Israel, their heads, their judges, and their officials, and they presented themselves before God.
And the people of Bethel came and sat there until evening before God, and they lifted their voices and {wept bitterly}.
Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all [their] strength, and with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
And Yahweh {was angry} with Uzza, and he struck him down because he reached his hand upon the ark. And he died there before God.
And they brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God.
because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants and you humbled yourself before me and tore your garments and wept before me, now I also have heard,' {declares} Yahweh.
"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?
"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?
Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.
My soul thirsts for God, for [the] living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
because you have delivered my soul from death. [Have you] not [kept] my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
As smoke is driven off, you will drive [them] off. As wax melts before fire, [the] wicked will perish before God.
But [the] righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God, and will rejoice with joy.
They go from strength to strength, [until each] appears before God in Zion.
Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be quick to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you [are] on earth; therefore, let your words be few.