some verse on excuses

GEN 3:12 The man said, "The woman you put here with me--she gave me some
fruit from the tree, and I ate it."

13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The
woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

EXO 4:1 Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me
and say, 'The LORD did not appear to you'?"

10 Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in
the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and
tongue."

11 The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or
mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."

13 But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it."

14 Then the LORD'S anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about
your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on
his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you.

32:22 "Do not be angry, my lord," Aaron answered. "You know how prone
these people are to evil.

23 They said to me, 'Make us gods who will go before us. As for this
fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has
happened to him.'

24 So I told them, 'Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.' Then they
gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!"

DEU 30:11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you
or beyond your reach.

12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into
heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"

13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the
sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"

14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so
you may obey it.

JDG 6:12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, "The LORD
is with you, mighty warrior."

13 "But sir," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this
happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about
when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the
LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian."

14 The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save
Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?"

15 "But Lord," Gideon asked, "how can I save Israel? My clan is the
weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family."

16 The LORD answered, "I will be with you, and you will strike down all
the Midianites together."

17 Gideon replied, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign
that it is really you talking to me.

1KI 19:19 So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He
was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the
twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him.

20 Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. "Let me kiss my father
and mother good-by," he said, "and then I will come with you." "Go back,"
Elijah replied. "What have I done to you?"

21 So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and
slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave
it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became
his attendant.