Job 8:5

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

If you seek for God early, || And make supplication to the Mighty,

YLT

If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

DBY

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

DRC

Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

GNV

Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,

JPS

If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

LXXE

But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.

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WLC

אִם־אַ֭תָּה תְּשַׁחֵ֣ר אֶל־אֵ֑ל וְאֶל־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י תִּתְחַנָּֽן׃

LXX-Br

Σὺ δὲ ὄρθριζε πρὸς Κύριον παντοκράτορα δεόμενος.

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• James 4:7–10Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn,…
• Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
• Hebrews 3:7–8Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
• Isaiah 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our…
• Matthew 7:7–8Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
• 2 Chronicles 33:12–13And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers. And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He…
• Job 5:8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
• Job 22:21–30Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you. Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart. If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove…

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