TheWay BibleJob 8:5 KJV
Job · chapter 8 · verse 5
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;Job 8:5 · King James Version
Job 8:5 in context
3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- supplicationchânanproperly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferiorH2603 →
- seekshâcharproperly, to dawnH7836 →
- GodʼêlstrengthH410 →
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Here, I. Bildad reproves Job for what he had said (Job 8:2), checks his passion, but perhaps (as is too common) with greater passion. We thought Job spoke a great deal of good sense and much to the purpose, and that he had reason and right on his side;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7