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Job 5:8
8I suggest that you ask God to help you. You should tell him about your problems.
Job 5:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
- New International Version (NIV)“But if I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,
- New King James Version (NKJV)“But as for me, I would seek God, And to God I would commit my cause—
Context of Job 5:8
6Problems do not grow like plants in our fields. Trouble does not come up from the ground. 7But trouble comes to everyone, as soon as they are born. It is as certain as smoke that rises from a fire. I suggest that you ask God to help you. You should tell him about your problems. 9He does great things that nobody can understand. He does more miracles than anyone can count. 10He gives rain for the earth. He sends water for the fields.
Read all of Job 5Job 5:8 word by word
אוּלָ֗ם אֲ֭נִי אֶדְרֹ֣שׁ אֶל־אֵ֑ל וְאֶל־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים אָשִׂ֥ים דִּבְרָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 5:8
- Job 8:5But you should pray to Almighty God. You should ask him to help you.
- Job 22:21So, Job, agree to accept God's ways. Have peace in your mind about him. Then you will again have good success.
- Genesis 32:7Jacob was very frightened and upset when he heard this. So he separated his people into two groups. He also separated his animals.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12This gave Manasseh a lot of pain. He asked the Lord his God to be kind to him. He made himself humble and he prayed for help to the Lord, the God of his ancestors.
- Psalms 50:15Pray to me when you are in trouble. Then I will rescue you, and you will praise me.’
- Psalms 77:1I will call out to God for help. I will call aloud to God, and he will listen to me.
- Jonah 2:1From inside the fish's stomach, Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.
- Psalms 37:5Let the Lord be your guide into the future. Trust in him and he will help you.
- 2 Timothy 1:12That is why I have these troubles. But I am not ashamed to be in prison. I have believed in Christ and I know him well. I know that I can trust him to keep his message safe. God has given me the authority to speak that message to people at this time. Christ has the power to keep it safe until that great day when he comes back.
- 1 Peter 2:23People insulted Christ, but he did not say any bad thing to answer them. People caused him to have trouble, but he never tried to hurt them in return. Instead, Christ trusted God to help him. He knew that God always judges people fairly.
- 1 Peter 4:19So remember this. If you receive trouble because that is what God wants, you should continue to trust him. God made you and he always does what he has promised. So you should continue to do what is good.
Commentaries on Job 5:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8I would seek unto God - Were I in your place, instead of wasting my time, and irritating my soul with useless complaints, I would apply to my Maker, and, if conscious of my innocence, would confidently commit my cause to him.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8I would seek unto God - Our translators have omitted here the adversative particle אוּלם 'ûlâm but, yet, nevertheless, and have thus marred the connection. The meaning of Eliphaz, I take to be, “that since affliction is ordered by an intelligent Being, and does not spring out of the ground, therefore he would commit his cause to God, and look to him.” Jerome has well expressed it, Quam ob rem ego deprecabor Dominum. Some have understood this as meaning…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and night, summer and winter; but it is according to the will and counsel of God. We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin, and therefore born to trouble…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8Appeal to God: This meant a formal request for help, advice, or removal of blame, sometimes through asking God to forgive (Amos 5:4, 6). It could possibly refer to an appeal through a message from a prophet (Genesis 25:22; 1 Samuel 9:9; 1 Kings 22:8). Job wanted to present his cause before God. Later he tried to do that very thing (Job 13:3, 15, 18; 23:3–8; 29:1–31:40).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Therefore (as affliction is ordered by God, on account of sin), "I would" have you to "seek unto God" (Is 8:19; Am 5:8; Jr 5:24).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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