15 (A)Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him;
    I must (B)appeal for mercy to my accuser.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:15 Or to my judge

15 (A)If I am guilty, woe to me!
    If I am (B)in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
    and (C)look on my affliction.

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If you will seek God
    and (A)plead with the Almighty for mercy,

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23 (A)When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, (B)but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.

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27 You will (A)make your prayer to him, and he will hear you,
    and you will (B)pay your vows.

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I will say to God, Do not (A)condemn me;
    let me know why you (B)contend against me.

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“As for me, I would seek God,
    and to God would I commit my cause,

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(A)For I am not aware of anything against myself, (B)but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

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18 (A)O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see (B)our desolations, and (C)the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.

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Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by (A)prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

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(A)With weeping they shall come,
    (B)and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them (C)walk by brooks of water,
    (D)in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for (E)I am a father to Israel,
    and Ephraim is (F)my firstborn.

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31 “For has anyone said to God,
    ‘I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
32 (A)teach me what I do not see;
    if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

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There an upright man could argue with him,
    and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

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13 He prayed to him, and (A)God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. (B)Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

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38 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house, 39 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ((A)for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),

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