Job 8:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 11:13 : 13 "If you set your heart aright, Stretch out your hands toward him.
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
  • Heb 3:7-8 : 7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, 8 Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
  • Jas 4:7-9 : 7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
  • Job 22:21-30 : 21 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you. 22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, And lay up his words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, If you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. 24 Lay your treasure in the dust, The gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks. 25 The Almighty will be your treasure, Precious silver to you. 26 For then shall you delight yourself in the Almighty, And shall lift up your face to God. 27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows. 28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways. 29 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person. 30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent; Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh he was God.
  • Job 5:8 : 8 "But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 8:6-8
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    86%

    6 If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

    7 Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.

    8 "Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers.

  • 23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, If you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

  • 8 "But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;

  • Job 8:3-4
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    3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

    4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;

  • Job 22:25-27
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    25 The Almighty will be your treasure, Precious silver to you.

    26 For then shall you delight yourself in the Almighty, And shall lift up your face to God.

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

  • Job 11:13-15
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    13 "If you set your heart aright, Stretch out your hands toward him.

    14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

    15 Surely then shall you lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

  • Job 11:5-7
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    5 But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against you,

    6 That he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

    7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

  • 3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

  • 5 If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.

  • Prov 2:3-5
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    3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding;

    4 If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures:

    5 Then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, And find the knowledge of God.

  • 1 "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

  • 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me;

  • 15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

  • 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • 17 "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

  • Job 27:9-10
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    9 Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?

    10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call on God at all times?

  • 6 Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

  • 5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

  • 6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

  • 8 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."

  • 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

  • 32 If you have anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify you.

  • 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would tell me.

  • 6 That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin?

  • 29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • 14 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

  • 26 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, So that he sees his face with joy: He restores to man his righteousness.

  • 18 That you should visit him every morning, And test him every moment?

  • 22 Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and you answer me.

  • 8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 6 Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.

  • 4 Yes, you do away with fear, And hinder devotion before God.

  • 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

  • 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

  • 28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

  • 6 Isn't your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope?

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?