Job 5:8
But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
In Context
7But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
9Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
Job 11:13But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;
Job 22:27You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.
Psalms 50:15Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
Jeremiah 11:20But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.
2 Timothy 1:12And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till 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 →