Job 5:8
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Job 5:8 in other translations
| BSB | However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him— |
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| WEB | “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, |
| ASV | But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause; |
| YLT | Yet I--I inquire for God, And for God I give my word, |
| DARBY | But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause; |
| BBE | But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him: |
| Webster | I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause: |
What does Job 5:8 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 5:6-16
Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and night, summer and winter; but it is according to the will and counsel of God. We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin…
Job 5:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 5:8
- Psalms 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
- Psalms 37:5
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
- Job 22:21
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12-13
And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.
- 1 Peter 4:19
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
- Job 22:27
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
- 2 Timothy 1:12
For 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.
- 1 Peter 2:23
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
- Genesis 32:7-12
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands; And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. …
- Job 8:5
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
- Psalms 77:1-2
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
- Jonah 2:1-7
Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly, And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. …
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Context
- Job 5:7
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- Job 5:8
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
- Job 5:9
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Job 5:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Ciertamente yo buscaría á Dios, y depositaría en él mis negocios: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais moi je rechercherai ✶Dieu, et devant Dieu je placerai ma cause, – |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ich jedoch würde Gott suchen und Gott meine Sache darlegen, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quam ob rem ego deprecabor Dominum, et ad Deum ponam eloquium meum: |