Job 5:8

WEB

⁸“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

KJV

⁸I would seek^[+] unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

BSB

⁸However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

FBV

⁸If it were me, I would go to God and put my case before him.

Extra References

Psalms 50:15

¹⁵Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Psalms 37:5

⁵Commit your way to the LORD. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Job 22:21

²¹“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.

¹²When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

1 Peter 4:19

¹⁹Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

2 Timothy 1:12

¹²For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Job 22:27

²⁷You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

Job 8:5

⁵If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

1 Peter 2:23

²³When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Genesis 32:7-12

⁷Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two companies. ⁸He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.” ⁹Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’ ¹⁰I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies. ¹¹Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children. ¹²You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”