English Standard Version
Job 8:5
5If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,
Job 8:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
- New International Version (NIV)But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,
- New King James Version (NKJV)If you would earnestly seek God And make your supplication to the Almighty,
- New Living Translation (NLT)But if you pray to God and seek the favor of the Almighty,
Context of Job 8:5
3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? 4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, 6if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation. 7And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
Read all of Job 8Job 8:5 word by word
אִם־אַ֭תָּה תְּשַׁחֵ֣ר אֶל־אֵ֑ל וְאֶל־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י תִּתְחַנָּֽן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 8:5
- Job 5:8"As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,
- Job 11:13"If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
- Job 22:21"Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
- Isaiah 55:6"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;
- Matthew 7:7"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
- Hebrews 3:7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice,
- James 4:7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Commentaries on Job 8:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5If thou wouldest seek unto God - Though God has so severely afflicted thee, and removed thy children by a terrible judgment; yet if thou wilt now humble thyself before him, and implore his mercy, thou shalt be saved. He cut them off in their sins, but he spares thee; and this is a proof that he waits to be gracious to thee.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes - If thou wouldest do it now. If even on the supposition that your sons have thus perished, and that God has come out in judgment against your family, you would look to God, you might be restored to favor. The word rendered “seek betimes” (שׁחר shâchar ) means literally to seek in the morning, to seek early; and then, to make it the first business. It is derived from the word meaning aurora (שׁחר shachar ) and has…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. seek unto God betimes--early. Make it the first and chief anxiety (Psa 78:34; Ho 5:15; Is 26:9; Pr 8:17; 13:24).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 8
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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