Job 5:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Job 5:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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, …
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.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Assurance Atheism Attributes of God Backsliders Believing Faith Fear

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-16)

Eliphaz, having touched Job in a very tender part, in mentioning both the loss of his estate and the death of his children as the just punishment of his sin, that he might not drive him to despair, here begins to encourage him, and puts him in a way to make himself easy. Now he very much changes his voice (Gal. 4:20), and speaks in the accents of kindness, as if he would atone for the hard words h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. Therefore (as affliction is ordered by God, on account of sin), “I would” have you to “seek unto God” (Is 8:19; Am 5:8; Jr 5:24).