The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.
Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.
My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.
Let your right hand be stretched out for salvation, and give me an answer, so that your loved ones may be safe from danger.
I will give you praise, for you have given me an answer, and have become my salvation.
I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.
<KOPH> I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.
I put the record of my ways before you, and you gave me an answer: O give me knowledge of your rules.
So that I may have an answer for the man who would put me to shame; for I have faith in your word.
<A Song of the going up.> In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.
Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.
<A Psalm. Of David.> Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;
He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.
My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.
They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.
Now am I certain that the Lord gives salvation to his king; he will give him an answer from his holy heaven with the strength of salvation in his right hand.
O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.
O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.
<Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.)
In you, O Lord, is my hope: you will give me an answer, O Lord, my God.
Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
<To the chief music-maker on corded instruments. A Psalm. Of David.> Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.
So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.
For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers; you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name.
You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;
But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.
Give an answer to my words, O Lord; for your mercy is good: be turned to me, because of your great pity.
Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.
For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.
You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)
<A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.
In the day of my trouble I send up my cry to you; for you will give me an answer.
When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.
And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?
But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.
But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
And Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said to the grain-cutters, The Lord be with you. And they made answer, The Lord give you his blessing.
I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.
And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give them an answer.
And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.
And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;
For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.
And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?
And he said in answer to me, Have you no knowledge what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
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