Job 11:13
But if you repent and spread out your hands to pray to him,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
In Context
12Stupid people will become wise when wild donkeys are born tame!
14if you get rid of your sins and don't let wickedness continue in your life,
Cross References
Exodus 9:29“Once I've left the city, I will pray to the Lord for you,” Moses told him. “The thunder will stop, and there'll be no more hail, so that you will realize that the earth belongs to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 12:14But Rehoboam did what was evil because he did not commit himself to following the Lord.
Job 5:8If it were me, I would go to God and put my case before him.
Job 22:21Come back to God and be reconciled to him, and you'll be prosperous again.
Psalms 78:8Then they would not be like their forefathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation that was untrustworthy and unfaithful.
Psalms 143:6I stretch out my hands to you, thirsting for you like dried-out land. Selah.
Matthew Henry on Job 11:8-13
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? 11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Zophar here speaks very good… Read the whole commentary →