Job 8:5

WEB

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

KJV

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

BSB

⁵But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,

FBV

⁵But if you pray to God and ask for his help,

Extra References

James 4:7-10

⁷Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Hebrews 3:7-8

⁷Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice, ⁸don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

Job 11:13

¹³“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

Matthew 7:7-8

⁷“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. ⁸For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Isaiah 55:6-7

⁶Seek the LORD while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. ⁷Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

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.

Job 5:8

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

Job 22:21-30

²¹“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you. ²²Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. ²³If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. ²⁴Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks. ²⁵The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you. ²⁶For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God. ²⁷You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows. ²⁸You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways. ²⁹When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person. ³⁰He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”