Job 27:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

without listening when they beg for mercy.

Cross References

Psalm 109:7

Try him and find him guilty! Consider his prayers a lie.

Psalm 18:41

They cried out for help, but no one saved them; they called out to you, but there was no answer.

Psalm 18:42

I ground them to dust blown by the wind, and I poured them out like mud in the streets.

Psalm 66:18

If my thoughts had been sinful, he would have refused to hear me.

Proverbs 1:27

or when trouble and distress surround you like a whirlwind, I will laugh and make fun of you.

Proverbs 1:28

You will ask for my help, but I won't listen; you will search, but you won't find me.

Proverbs 28:9

God cannot stand the prayers of anyone who disobeys his Law.

Isaiah 1:15

“No matter how much you pray, I won't listen. You are too violent.

Jeremiah 11:11

Here is what I've decided to do. I will bring suffering on the people of Judah and Jerusalem, and no one will escape. They will beg me to help, but I won't listen to their prayers.

Jeremiah 14:12

They may even go without eating and offer sacrifices to please me and to give thanks. But when they cry out for my help, I won't listen, and I won't accept their sacrifices. Instead, I'll send war, starvation, and disease to wipe them out.”

Ezekiel 8:18

So in my fierce anger, I will punish them without mercy and refuse to help them when they cry out to me.”

Hosea 7:14

They don't really pray to me; they just howl in their beds. They have rejected me for Baal and slashed themselves, in the hope that Baal will bless their crops.

Micah 3:4

Some day you will beg the LORD to help you, but he will turn away because of your sins.

Zechariah 7:13

and said, “You people paid no attention when I called out to you, and now I'll pay no attention when you call out to me.”

Luke 13:25

Once the owner of the house gets up and locks the door, you will be left standing outside. You will knock on the door and say, “Sir, open the door for us!” But the owner will answer, “I don't know a thing about you!”

John 9:31

We know that God listens only to people who love and obey him. God doesn't listen to sinners.

Deuteronomy 1:45

Then you came back to the place of worship at Kadesh-Barnea and wept, but the LORD would not listen to your prayers.

James 4:3

Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because you pray just for selfish reasons.