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Job 21:14-15
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Job 21:14-15
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14 Yet they say to God, “Depart from us,(A)
for we have no desire to know your ways!
15 What is the Almighty that we should serve him?
And what do we gain by praying to him?”(B)
Job 21:14-15
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Job 21:14-15
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Job 22:17
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Job 22:17
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17 They said to God, “Let us alone!”
and, “What can the Almighty do to us?”
Job 22:17
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Job 22:17
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17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
What can the Almighty do to us?’(A)
Psalm 73:11-12
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Psalm 73:11-12
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11 They say, “Does God really know?”
“Does the Most High have any knowledge?”(A)
12 Such, then, are the wicked,
always carefree, increasing their wealth.
Psalm 73:11-12
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Psalm 73:11-12
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11 They say, “How would God know?
Does the Most High know anything?”
Isaiah 58:3
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Isaiah 58:3
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3 “Why do we fast, but you do not see it?
afflict ourselves, but you take no note?”
See, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits,
and drive all your laborers.(A)
Isaiah 58:3
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Isaiah 58:3
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3 ‘Why have we fasted,’(A) they say,
‘and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled(B) ourselves,
and you have not noticed?’(C)
“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please(D)
and exploit all your workers.
Zechariah 7:2-7
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Zechariah 7:2-7
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2 Bethelsarezer sent Regem-melech and his men to implore the favor of the Lord 3 and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets, “Must I weep and abstain in the fifth month[a] as I have been doing these many years?” 4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: 5 Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh month[b] these seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?(A) 6 When you were eating and drinking, was it not for yourselves that you ate and for yourselves that you drank?
7 Are these not the words which the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets,[c] when Jerusalem and its surrounding cities were inhabited and secure, when the Negeb and the Shephelah were inhabited?
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- 7:3 Weep…fifth month: a mourning ritual commemorating the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple on the seventh day of the fifth month in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign (ca. 587/586 B.C.; see 2 Kgs 25:8).
- 7:5 Seventh month: the time of a fast in memory of the murder of Gedaliah, the governor installed by the Babylonians after they conquered Jerusalem (see 2 Kgs 25:25; Jer 41:1–3). Seventy years: see note on 1:12.
- 7:7, 12 Earlier prophets: see note on 1:4.
Zechariah 7:2-7
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Zechariah 7:2-7
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2 The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat(A) the Lord(B) 3 by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn(C) and fast in the fifth(D) month, as I have done for so many years?”
4 Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: 5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted(E) and mourned in the fifth and seventh(F) months for the past seventy years,(G) was it really for me that you fasted? 6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?(H) 7 Are these not the words the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets(I) when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest(J) and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills(K) were settled?’”(L)
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