Job 16:20

“My friends are scoffers [who ridicule];
My eye pours out tears to God.

Job 12:4-5

“I am a joke to my friends;
I, one whom God answered when he called upon Him—
A just and blameless man is a joke [and laughed to scorn].

Job 16:4

“I also could speak like you,
If you were in my place;
I could compose and join words together against you
And shake my head at you.

Job 17:2

“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,
And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.

Psalm 109:4

In return for my love, they attack me,
But I am in prayer.

Psalm 142:2

I pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare my trouble before Him.

Hosea 12:4-5

He wrestled with the angel and prevailed;
He wept [in repentance] and sought His favor.
He met Him at Bethel
And there God spoke with [him and through him with] us—

Luke 6:11-12

But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with senseless rage [and lacked spiritual insight], and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].

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