In Job 5:8, Eliphaz also urges seeking God — a parallel call to turn to Him in distress.

Job 22:23 mirrors the same conditional call to return to God and be restored, reinforcing Zophar's message from another friend.

In Job 36:11, the same conditional promise appears: obedience leads to prosperity, echoing the 'if you prepare your heart' structure here.

In 2 Chronicles 12:14, Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart — a negative contrast to preparing the heart.

In 2 Chronicles 19:3, Jehoshaphat set his heart to seek God — a positive parallel to stretching out hands.

In Psalm 78:8, the fathers had a heart not steadfast — a negative contrast to preparing the heart.

2 Chronicles 30:19 echoes the idea of 'setting one's heart' to seek God, even when ritually unclean—deepening the concept of sincere devotion.

Ezra 7:10 uses the same idiom 'set his heart'—for studying and obeying the law, reinforcing the inner preparation Zophar calls for.

Psalm 44:20 uses the same phrase 'stretch out hands' but toward a false god, contrasting the proper prayer direction urged here.

Psalm 143:6 shares the image of spreading out hands in thirst for God—a similar posture of earnest seeking, though David's cry is for deliverance.