2Sa 14:15, 17, Job 4:7, 8:20, Psa 44:22, Eze 14:19-21, 21:13 | ESV | STEP | Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid , and your servant thought , I will speak to the king ; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant .

2 Samuel 14:15

15 Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

2 Samuel 14:17

17 And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is ^alike the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”

Job 4:7

7 “Remember: ^bwho that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?

Job 8:20

20 “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,
nor take the hand of evildoers.

Psalms 44:22

22 Yet ^cfor your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

Ezekiel 14:19-21

19 “Or ^dif I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 20 even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.

21 “For thus says the Lord God: How much more ^ewhen I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, ^fsword, ^gfamine, ^hwild beasts, and ⁱpestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

Ezekiel 21:13

13 For it will not be a testing—what could it do if you despise ^jthe rod?” ^{▼▼Or For it is a testing; and what if even the rod despises? It shall not be!} declares the Lord God.