Job 5:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But I woulde aske counsell at the Lorde, and talke with God?

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  • Ps 50:15 : 15 And call vpon me in the tyme of trouble: I wyll heare thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.
  • Ps 37:5 : 5 Commit thy way vnto God: and put thy trust in hym, and he shall bryng it to passe.
  • 1 Pet 4:19 : 19 Wherefore, let them that are troubled accordyng to the wyll of God, commit their soules to him with well doyng, as vnto a faythfull creatour.
  • 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 Whiche when he was reuiled, reuiled not agayne: when he suffred, he threatned not, but committed the vengeaunce to him that iudgeth righteously.
  • Ps 77:1-2 : 1 To the chiefe musition vpon Ieduthun, a psalme of Asaph. My voyce was vnto the Lorde, and I cryed: my voyce was vnto the Lord, and he hearkened vnto me. 2 In the tyme of my trouble I sought the Lorde: my hande all the nyght catched & ceassed not, my soule refused comfort.
  • Gen 32:7-9 : 7 But Iacob was greatly afrayde, and wist not whiche way to turne him selfe: and deuided the people that was with him, and the sheepe, and oxen, and camelles, into two companies: 8 And sayd, if Esau come to the one part and smite it, the other shall saue it selfe. 9 And Iacob said agayne: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isahac, Lorde whiche saydest vnto me, returne vnto thy countrey, and to thy kindred, & I will do well with thee: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercyes and trueth whiche thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunt: for with my staffe came I ouer this Iordane, & nowe haue I gotten two companies. 11 Deliuer me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I feare hym, lest he wyll come and smyte me, yea the mother with the chyldren. 12 Thou saydest, I wyll surely do thee good, and make thy seede as the sande of the sea, whiche can not be numbred for multitude.
  • 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And when he was in tribulation, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled him selfe exceedingly before the God of his fathers, 13 And made intercession to him: and God was intreated of him, and hearde his prayer, and brought him againe to Hierusalem into his kingdome: and then Manasse knewe that the Lorde was God.
  • Job 8:5 : 5 If thou wouldest nowe resorte vnto God be times, and make thy prayer to the almightie,
  • Job 22:21 : 21 Therefore reconcile thee vnto God, and be at peace: so shall all thinges prospere with thee right well.
  • Job 22:27 : 27 Then shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt kepe thy promises.
  • Jonah 2:1-7 : 1 And Ionas prayed vnto the Lorde his God out of the fisshes belly. 2 And saide: In affliction I cryed vnto the Lorde, and he heard me: out of the belly of hell cryed I, and thou heardest my voyce. 3 Thou haddest cast me downe into the deepe, into the middest of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy billowes and waues passed ouer me. 4 And I saide: I am cast away out of thy sight, yet wyll I loke againe toward thyne holy temple. 5 The waters compassed me euen vnto the soule, the deapth closed me on euery side, and the weedes were wrapt about my head. 6 I went downe to the bottome of the mountaines, the earth with her barres was about me for euer: yet hast thou brought vp my lyfe from corruption, O Lorde my God. 7 When my soule fainted within me, I remembred the Lorde, and my prayer came in vnto thee into thy holy temple.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For the which cause I also suffer these thynges. Neuerthelesse, I am not ashamed: For I knowe whom I haue beleued, and I am perswaded that he is able to kepe that which I haue committed to hym, agaynst that day.

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    8 O that I might haue my desire, and that God woulde graunt me the thing that I long for:

    9 O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:

    10 Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.

  • 4 Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?

  • 15 For though I were righteous, yet might I not geue him one word againe, but mekely submit my selfe to hym as my iudge.

  • 9 Whiche doth great thinges and vnsearcheable, and maruels without number.

  • 21 O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:

  • 9 I will beare the wrath of the Lord, for I haue offended hym till he sit in iudgement vpon my cause, and see that I haue right: then will he bring me foorth to the light, and I shall see his righteousnesse.

  • 8 Then woulde I make hast to escape: from the stormie wynde, and from the tempest.

  • 28 Then am I afrayde of all my sorowes, for I knowe that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.

  • 8 Wylt thou disanul my iudgement? or wylt thou condempne me, that thou mayst be righteous?

  • 3 I wyll open vnto thee yet farre higher knowledge, and wil ascribe righteousnesse vnto my maker.

  • 35 And then shall I aunswere hym without any feare: but because I am not so, I holde me still.

  • 5 But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:

  • 8 Neuerthelesse, when thou dydst turne thy face, I was troubled: then I cryed vnto thee O God, then made I my humble prayers to thee my Lorde.

  • 19 If men will speake of strength, lo he is strong: if men will speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?

  • 16 As for me I wyll crye vnto the Lord: and God wyll saue me.

  • 2 I wyll call vnto the most high Lorde: euen vnto the Lord that wil perfourme the cause which I haue in hande.

  • 28 (That were a wickednesse worthy to be punished: for then shoulde I haue denyed the God that is aboue.)

  • 1 Iudge me O Lorde, and debate my cause with an vnnaturall people: oh delyuer me from the deceiptfull and wicked man.

  • 6 That thou makest such inquisition for my wickednes, and searchest out my sinne?

  • 2 I knowe it is so of a trueth: For how may a man compared vnto God be iustified?

  • 35 O that I had one which woulde heare me: beholde my signe in the whiche the almightie shal aunswere for me, though he that is my contrarie partie hath written a booke against me.

  • 14 When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him?

  • 7 If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.

  • 6 Let me be wayed in an euen balaunce, that God may see myne innocencie.

  • 32 If I haue gone amisse, enfourme thou me: If I haue done wrong, I wyll leaue of.

  • 5 And why? Iob hath sayd, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement.

  • 9 Will God heare his crye, when trouble commeth vpon him?

  • 20 Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • 8 Enquire I pray thee of the former age, and search diligently among their fathers:

  • 2 O that my complaynt were truely wayed, and my punishment layde in the balaunces together: