Job 8:5

If you seek for God early, || And make supplication to the Mighty,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4If your sons have sinned before Him, || And He sends them away, || By the hand of their transgression,

6If you [are] pure and upright, || Surely now He wakes for you, || And has completed || The habitation of your righteousness.

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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,

Isaiah 55:6Seek YHWH while He may be found, || Call Him while He is near,

Hebrews 3:7For this reason, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you may hear His voice—

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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