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Job 5:8
8“But if I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him.
Job 5:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
- 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—
- New Living Translation (NLT)“If I were you, I would go to God and present my case to him.
Context of Job 5:8
6For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground. 7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. “But if I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him. 9He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. 10He provides rain for the earth; he sends water on the countryside.
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 if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,
- Job 22:21“Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.
- Genesis 32:7In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
- Psalms 50:15and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Psalms 77:1I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me.
- Jonah 2:1From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.
- Psalms 37:5Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this:
- 2 Timothy 1:12That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
- 1 Peter 2:23When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.
- 1 Peter 4:19So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do 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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