Job 8:5

New American Standard Bible

"If you will search for God And implore the compassion of the Almighty,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But if you earnestly seek Godand ask the Almighty for mercy,

Hebrew Names Version
If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to Shaddai.

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

English Standard Version
If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,

New Century Version
But you should ask God for help and pray to the Almighty for mercy.

New English Translation
But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

Amplified Bible
"If you would [diligently] seek God And implore the compassion and favor of the Almighty,

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,

Legacy Standard Bible
If you would seek God earnestlyAnd plead for the grace of the Almighty,

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

Contemporary English Version
So why don't you turn to him

Complete Jewish Bible
"If you will earnestly seek God and plead for Shaddai's favor,

Darby Translation
If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

Easy-to-Read Version
But now, look to God and pray to the All-Powerful.

George Lamsa Translation
If you would seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,

Good News Translation
But turn now and plead with Almighty God;

Lexham English Bible
If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace.

Literal Translation
if you would seek earnestly to God, and make your prayer to the Almighty,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yff thou woldest now resorte vnto God by tymes, and make thine humble prayer to ye Allmightie:

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

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

JPS Old Testament (1917)
If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

King James Version (1611)
If thou wouldest seeke vnto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almightie:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou wouldest nowe resorte vnto God be times, and make thy prayer to the almightie,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.

English Revised Version
If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
netheles, if thou risist eerli to God, and bisechist `Almyyti God, if thou goist clene and riytful,

Update Bible Version
If you would seek diligently to God, And make your supplication to the Almighty;

Webster's Bible Translation
If thou wouldst seek to God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

New King James Version
If you would earnestly seek God And make your supplication to the Almighty,

New Living Translation
But if you pray to God and seek the favor of the Almighty,

New Life Bible
If you will look for God and pray to the All-powerful,

New Revised Standard
If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD, - and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

Revised Standard Version
If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,

Young's Literal Translation
If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you would seek God And implore the compassion of the Almighty,

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite responded, ² "How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? ³ "Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right? ⁴ "If your sons sinned against Him, Then He turned them over to the power of their wrongdoing. ⁵ "If you will search for God And implore the compassion of the Almighty,⁶ If you are pure and upright, Surely now He will stir Himself for you And restore your righteous estate. ⁷ "Though your beginning was insignificant, Yet your end will increase greatly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou wouldest: Job 5:8, Job 11:13, Job 22:21-23, Job 22:24-30, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:13, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Matthew 7:7, Matthew 7:8, Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 3:8, James 4:7-10

Reciprocal: Job 9:15 - I would Job 10:2 - show me Job 16:17 - my prayer Job 22:23 - return Psalms 63:1 - early Mark 4:38 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes,.... Here Bildad seems to think more mildly, and speak more kindly to Job, that though he had sinned, yet not in so gross a manner as his children, since he was spared, and they were not; and therefore if he would apply himself to God, and supplicate his grace and mercy, and live a godly life, it might yet be well with him, and he be restored to his former or to better circumstances; his sense is, that he would advise him, as Eliphaz had done before, Job 5:8; to seek unto God "by prayer", as the Targum adds, and of which it is explained in the next clause, and that he would do this "betimes", or "in the morning" n; which is a proper time for prayer, and was one of the seasons good men in former times made use of for that purpose; see Psalms 5:3; or that he would seek him in the first place, and above all things, take the first opportunity to do it, without any procrastination of it, and that with eagerness and earnestness, with his whole heart and soul; for God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and those that seek him early shall find him:

and make thy supplication to the Almighty: not pleading any merit of his own, as deserving of any blessing on account of what he had done; but ask what he should as a favour, as a free gift, in a way of grace and mercy, as the word o signifies; call for the pity of the Almighty, as Broughton renders it.

n תשחר "mane quaesieris", Pagninus, Piscator, Mercerus. o So Schmidt in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes - If thou wouldest do it now. If even on the supposition that your sons have thus perished, and that God has come out in judgment against your family, you would look to God, you might be restored to favor. The word rendered “seek betimes” (שׁחר shâchar) means literally to seek in the morning, to seek early; and then, to make it the first business. It is derived from the word meaning aurora (שׁחר shachar) and has reference to the early light of the morning, and hence, to an early seeking. It may be applied to seeking him in early life, or as the first thing - looking to him immediately when help is needed, or before we apply to anyone else; compare Proverbs 7:15; Proverbs 8:17; Proverbs 13:24; Job 24:5; Psalms 63:1; Psalms 78:34; Isaiah 26:9; Hosea 5:15; compare the advice of Eliphaz, Job 5:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 8:5. If thou wouldest seek unto God — Though God has so severely afflicted thee, and removed thy children by a terrible judgment; yet if thou wilt now humble thyself before him, and implore his mercy, thou shalt be saved. He cut them off in their sins, but he spares thee; and this is a proof that he waits to be gracious to thee.