Genesis 18:30

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And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

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Then Judah went unto him and said, "O my lord, let thy servant speak a word in my lord's audience, and be not wroth with thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.

And Gideon said unto God, "Be not angry with me, that I speak once more; let me prove only once again with the fleece. Let it be dry only upon the fleece, and dew upon all the ground about."

"All the king's servants, and the people in the lands of the king know that whosoever cometh within the court unto the king, whether it be man or woman, which is not called, the commandment is that the same shall die immediately, except the king hold out the golden scepter unto him, that he may live. As for me, I have not been called to come in to the king now this thirty days."

"Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.

And why? For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto,

God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

Then I said, "O woe is me! For I am lost: inasmuch as I am a man of unclean lips, and dwell among people that hath unclean lips also. For mine eyes have seen the King and LORD of Hosts."

For thus sayeth the LORD: My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.

Wherefore if we receive a kingdom which is not moved, we have grace, whereby we may serve God and please him with reverence and godly fear.