Job 5:8
Yet I inquire for God, || And for God I give my word,
Literal Standard Version
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 misery, || And the sparks go high to fly.
9Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, until there is no numbering.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And when he is in distress he has appeased the face of his God YHWH, and is exceedingly humbled before the God of his fathers,
Job 11:13If you have prepared your heart, || And have spread out your hands to Him,
Job 22:27You make supplication to Him, || And He hears you, || And you complete your vows.
Psalms 50:15And call Me in a day of adversity, || I deliver you, and you honor Me.
Jeremiah 11:20And O YHWH of Hosts, judging righteousness, || Trying reins and heart, || I see Your vengeance against them, || For I have revealed my cause to You.
2 Timothy 1:12for which cause these things I also suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that He is able to guard that which I have committed to Him—to 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 →