Job 8:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

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  • Job 11:13 : 13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you: 8 Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
  • Heb 3:7-8 : 7 And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears, 8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
  • Jas 4:7-9 : 7 For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind. 9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief. 10 Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
  • Job 22:21-30 : 21 Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings. 22 Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart. 23 If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents; 24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys; 25 Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver; 26 For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God. 27 You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths. 28 Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways. 29 For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit. 30 He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near: 7 Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
  • 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers, 13 And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
  • Job 5:8 : 8 But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

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    23 If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

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    8 But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

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    3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

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    25 Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;

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    13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

    14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

    15 Then truly your face will be lifted up, with no mark of sin, and you will be fixed in your place without fear:

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    5 But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

    6 And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!

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    3 But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

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    3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

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    5 While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me;

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    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

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    17 Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

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    6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

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