Job 5:8
Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
In Context
7Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.
9Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.
Job 11:13Rut thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.
Job 22:27Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay 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, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest justly, and triest the reins and hearts, let me see thy revenge on them: for to thee I have revealed my cause.
2 Timothy 1:12For which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against 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 →