Job Chapter 8 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Job 8:5

If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
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BBE Job 8:5

If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;
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DARBY Job 8:5

If thou seek earnestly unto ùGod, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
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KJV Job 8:5

If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
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WBT Job 8:5

If thou wouldst seek to God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
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WEB Job 8:5

If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to the Almighty.
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YLT Job 8:5

If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes. Here we have again an echo of the words of Eliphaz (Job 5:8). There is a tacit assumption that Job has not had recourse to God, has not pleaded his cause with him or taken him into counsel; whereas all the evidence was the other way. Both when the first batch of calamities was reported to him (Job 1:14-19), and when the stroke of disease came (Job 2:10), Job cast his care on God, fell back on him, submitted himself to him unreservedly. "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord," he said in the one case; in the other, "What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" And make thy supplication to the Almighty; literally, make the Almighty gracious to thee."

Ellicott's Commentary