Job 5:8
Therefore, because of this, I will beg the Lord, and place my eloquence before God.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
In Context
7Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.
9He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And after this, being in great anguish, he prayed to the Lord his God. And he did penance greatly before the God of his fathers.
Job 11:13But you have fortified your heart and extended your hands to him.
Job 22:27You will plead with him, and he will listen to you, and you will pay your vows.
Psalms 50:15I will teach the unjust your ways, and the impious will be converted to you.
Jeremiah 11:20But you, O Lord of hosts, who judges justly, and who tests the temperament and the heart, let me see your vengeance against them. For I have revealed my case to you.
2 Timothy 1:12For this reason, I also suffer these things. But I am not confounded. For I know in whom I have believed, and I am certain that he has the power to preserve what was entrusted to me, unto 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 →