Job 5:8
But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
In Context
7For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
9Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
Job 11:13If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
Job 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows;
Psalms 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Jeremiah 11:20But thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
2 Timothy 1:12For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.
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 →