For every one asking, receives; and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking, it shall be opened. .
And I said in my hasty flight; I was cut off from before thine eyes: yet thou heardest the voice of my supplications in my crying to thee.
And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah:
Also when I shall exclaim and cry out, he stopped my prayer.
To him asking thee, give thou, and him wishing to borrow from thee, thou shouldst not turn away.
For everyone asking, receives and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking shall be opened.
And shall a son ask bread of any of you a father, will he give him a stone ? and if a fish, for a fish he will not give him a serpent.
And I say ' to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
And he spake to them a parable, that they must always pray, and not lose courage;
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.
Behold, we esteem those enduring happy. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and ye see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.