Job 8:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 8:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 4:7-10
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. …
Job 11:13
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
Hebrews 3:7-8
Wherefore(as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, …
Matthew 7:7-8
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: …
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-7)

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; but Bildad, like an eager angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? taking it for granted that Eliphaz ha…

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

(vv. 5)

5. seek unto God betimes--early. Make it the first and chief anxiety (Psa 78:34; Ho 5:15; Is 26:9; Pr 8:17; 13:24).