¹⁰ For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

¹¹ Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

²² As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

⁵⁴ Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

⁵⁵ I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

⁵⁶ Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

⁵⁷ Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

⁵⁸ O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

² And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, `And' thou heardest my voice.

³ For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

⁴ And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

⁵ The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.

⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars `closed' upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

⁷ When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.

⁸ They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

¹ And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend `it' in your pleasures.