Job 5:8
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
In Context
7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
9Which does great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
Job 11:13If you prepare yours heart, and stretch out yours hands toward him;
Job 22:27You shall make your prayer unto him, and he shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
Psalms 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
Jeremiah 11:20But, O LORD of hosts, that judge righteously, that try the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed my cause.
2 Timothy 1:12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded 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 →