I also could speak as you do, if your soul were in the place of my soul. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

I am one as a laughingstock to his friends; one who called upon God, and He answered him; the just and whole one is a laughingstock.

A lamp is despised in the thoughts of one who is at ease; it is made ready for those whose feet slip.

Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their rebellion?

In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I am in prayer.

I pour out my meditation before Him; I make known before His face my distress.

Yes, he wept and pleaded with Him, and he contended with the Angel and prevailed. He found Him at Bethel, and He spoke with us there,

even Jehovah the God of Hosts. Jehovah is His memorial.

But they were filled with madness, and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Now it came to pass in those days that He went out into the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who had the power to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,