¹⁰ For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

¹¹ Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

²² As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

⁸ Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

¹⁸ I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

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

⁵⁵ I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

⁵⁶ You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

⁵⁷ You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.

⁵⁸ Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

² He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

³ For you threw me into the depths, In the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

⁴ I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

⁵ The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

⁷ "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

⁸ Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

¹ He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

³ You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.