Lexicon :: Strong's G686 - ara

and said, “My lord, if I have found favor with you, please do not go on past your servant.

Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘There is absolutely no fear of God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’? ”

Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

“‘Look, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the surface of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.’ ”

These were the outermost cities of the tribe of the descendants of Judah toward the border of Edom in the Negev: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

Jether’s sons: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.

If only I knew how to find him,

so that I could go to his throne.

let God weigh me on accurate scales,

and he will recognize my integrity.

let someone else eat what I have sown,

and let my crops be uprooted.

let my own wife grind grain for another man,

and let other men sleep with[fn] her.

then let my shoulder blade fall from my back,

and my arm be pulled from its socket.

this would also be an iniquity deserving punishment,

for I would have denied God above.

I have not allowed my mouth to sin

by asking for his life with a curse.

then let thorns grow instead of wheat

and stinkweed instead of barley.

The words of Job are concluded.

Don’t you know? You were already born;

you have lived so long![fn]

Then I will confess to you

that your own right hand can deliver you.

if I have done harm to one at peace with me

or have plundered[fn] my adversary without cause,

In my alarm I said,

“I am cut off from your sight.”

But you heard the sound of my pleading

when I cried to you for help.

Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones?[fn]

Do you judge people fairly?

Then people will say,

“Yes, there is a reward for the righteous!

There is a God who judges on earth! ”

Did I purify my heart

and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?

then they would have swallowed us alive

in their burning anger against us.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,

and the light around me will be night” —

No foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD

should say,

“The LORD will exclude me from his people,”

and the eunuch should not say,

“Look, I am a dried-up tree.”

I said, “Oh no, Lord GOD, you have certainly deceived this people and Jerusalem, by announcing, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at[fn] our throats.”

“Whether they listen or refuse to listen ​— ​for they are a rebellious house ​— ​they will know that a prophet has been among them.

“Speak my words to them whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.

“Go to your people, the exiles, and speak to them. Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”

Since Gilead is full of evil,

they will certainly come to nothing.

They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;

even their altars will be like piles of rocks

on the furrows of a field.