Cross References Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God: Job 13:2 According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you. Job 13:3 But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God: seek. Job 8:5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: Job 22:21,27 Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits. . . . Genesis 32:7-12 Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies, . . . 2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers. . . . Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Psalm 77:1,2 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph. [2] I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me. . . . Jonah 2:1-7 Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah: and Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days and three nights. . . . unto God. Psalm 37:5 Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it. 2 Timothy 1:12 For which cause, I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day. 1 Peter 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly. 1 Peter 4:19 Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator. Context Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him…7Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly. 8Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:9Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:… Lexicon However,אוּלָ֗ם (’ū·lām) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 199: However, on the contrary if I were you, אֲ֭נִי (’ă·nî) Pronoun - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 589: I I would appeal אֶדְרֹ֣שׁ (’eḏ·rōš) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 1875: To tread, frequent, to follow, to seek, ask, to worship to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to God אֵ֑ל (’êl) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty and lay אָשִׂ֥ים (’ā·śîm) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set my cause דִּבְרָתִֽי׃ (diḇ·rā·ṯî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 1700: A cause, reason, manner before וְאֶל־ (wə·’el-) Conjunctive waw | Preposition Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to Him אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative Additional Translations However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before HimI would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause: But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause; Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all; But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause; But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause: "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word, Jump to Previous Appeal Cause Commit Inquire Lay Prayer Seek WordJump to Next Appeal Cause Commit Inquire Lay Prayer Seek WordLinks Job 5:8 NIVJob 5:8 NLT Job 5:8 ESV Job 5:8 NASB Job 5:8 KJV Job 5:8 Bible Apps Job 5:8 Biblia Paralela Job 5:8 Chinese Bible Job 5:8 French Bible Job 5:8 German Bible Alphabetical: And appeal as before But cause for God him I if it lay me my place seek to were would OT Poetry: Job 5:8 But as for me I would seek (Jb) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |