Job 5:8
"But as for me, I would seek God.I would commit my cause to God,
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
In Context
7but man is born to trouble,as the sparks fly upward.
9who does great things that can't be fathomed,marvelous things without number;
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.
Job 22:27You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you.You shall pay your vows.
Psalms 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble.I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
Jeremiah 11:20"But, the Lord of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause."
2 Timothy 1:12For this cause I also suffer these things.Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to 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 →