VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 8:5

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

Read it in 5 translations

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

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

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

If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

2 How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?

3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

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

6 If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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