Job 5:8
But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
In Context
7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
9who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Job 11:13If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him,
Job 22:27Thou shall make thy prayer to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shall pay thy vows.
Psalms 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.
Jeremiah 11:20But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them, for to thee I have revealed my case.
2 Timothy 1:12Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.
Matthew Henry on Job 5:7-17
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their… Read the whole commentary →