Job 35:13
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Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
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The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.