Job 8:5
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
In Context
4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Job 11:13“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
Hebrews 3:7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will 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 →