For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? Will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

Will God hear his prayer? Or when distress has come upon him,

There they shall cry, and none shall hear, even because of the insolence of wicked men.

Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And My servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you have not spoken the truth against My servant Job.

They cried, but there was no deliverer: [even] to the Lord, but He hearkened not to them.

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears [are open] to their prayer;

If I have regarded iniquity in my heart, let not the Lord hearken [to me].

Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.

For it shall be that when you call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me.

For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:

God is far from the ungodly, but He hears the prayers of the righteous. [ 15:29A] Better are small receipts with righteousness, than abundant fruits with unrighteousness. [ 15:29B] Let the heart of a man think justly, that his steps may be rightly ordered of God.

He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear [him].

He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even he has made his prayer abominable.

When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

Then shall you cry, and God shall hearken to you; while you are yet speaking He will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech;

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I bring evils upon this people, out of which they shall not be able to come forth; and they shall presently cry to Me, but I will not listen to them.

for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.

Therefore will I deal with them in wrath: My eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy.

thus they shall cry to the Lord, but He shall not hearken to them; and He shall turn away His face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.

Therefore it came to pass, [that] as He spoke and they did not listen, so they shall cry, and I will not listen, says the Lord Almighty.

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears [are open] to their prayer;

God is far from the ungodly, but He hears the prayers of the righteous. [ 15:29A] Better are small receipts with righteousness, than abundant fruits with unrighteousness. [ 15:29B] Let the heart of a man think justly, that his steps may be rightly ordered of God.

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

If anyone desires to do His will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking on My own authority.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may give to you.

I desired to do Your will, O my God, and Your law in the midst of my heart.

Teach me to do Your will; for You are my God; Your good Spirit shall guide me in the straight [way].

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come--In the volume of the book it is written of Me-- To do Your will, O God.'"

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.

And whatever we should ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him.

Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

And I knew that You always hear Me, but because of the people standing around I said [this], so that they may believe that You sent Me."

And Abraham drew near and said, Would You destroy the righteous with the wicked, and shall the righteous be as the wicked?

Far be it from You to do such at thing, so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

And Abraham answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am [but] dust and ashes.

And he continued to speak to Him still, and said, But if there should be found there forty? And He said, I will not destroy it for the forty's sake.

And he said, Since I am able to speak to the Lord, what if there should be found there twenty? And He said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there twenty.

And the Lord departed, when He left off speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

And it came to pass, that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot dwelt.

But now return the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and [he] shall pray for you, and you shall live; but if you restore her not, know that you and all yours shall die.

And Elijah cried aloud and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, You have brought tragedy [for her] in slaying her son.

And it was so, and the child cried out,

And Elijah cried aloud to the heavens, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, answer me, O Lord, answer me this day by fire, and let all this people know that You are the Lord, the God of Israel, and I [am] Your servant, and for Your sake I have done these works.

Then fire fell from the Lord out of heaven, and devoured the whole burnt offerings, and the wood and the water that was in the trench, and the fire licked up the stones and the earth.

And King Hezekiah and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz prayed concerning these things, and they cried to heaven.

And the Lord sent an angel, and He destroyed every mighty man and warrior, and leader and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria; and he returned with shame of face to his own land and came into the house of his god. And [some] of his own offspring killed him with the sword.

Moses and Aaron among His priests, and Samuel among them that call upon His name; they called upon the Lord, and He heard them.

So He said that He would have destroyed them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn [Him] away from the fierceness of His anger, so that He should not destroy them.

And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before My face, My soul could not be toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go forth.

And the prayer of faith will save the [one] who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, it will be forgiven him.

Elijah was a man of similar nature to us, and with a prayer, he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land for three years and six months.