If you were in my place and I in yours, I could say everything you are saying. I could shake my head wisely and drown you with a flood of words.

Even my friends laugh at me now; they laugh, although I am righteous and blameless; but there was a time when God answered my prayers.

You have no troubles, and yet you make fun of me; you hit someone who is about to fall.

I watch how bitterly everyone mocks me.

They oppose me, even though I love them and have prayed for them.

I bring him all my complaints; I tell him all my troubles.

he fought against an angel and won. He wept and asked for a blessing. And at Bethel God came to our ancestor Jacob and spoke with him.

This was the LORD God Almighty---the LORD is the name by which he is to be worshiped.

They were filled with rage and began to discuss among themselves what they could do to Jesus.

At that time Jesus went up a hill to pray and spent the whole night there praying to God.

In his life on earth Jesus made his prayers and requests with loud cries and tears to God, who could save him from death. Because he was humble and devoted, God heard him.