Job 8:5

If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

In Context

4If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

6If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

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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;

Isaiah 55:6Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Hebrews 3:7And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

Matthew Henry on Job 8:2-8

The Address of Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the… Read the whole commentary →

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