King James Version
Job 8:5 in the King James Version says “If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;” — study this verse from Job chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;”
Job 8:5 · KJV
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; for: Heb. in the hand of their transgression
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“If thou wouldest seek”
H7836properly, to dawn, i.e., (figuratively) be (up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness); by extension, to search for (with painstaking
“unto God”
H410strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the almighty (but used also of any deity)
“and make thy supplication”
H2603properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e., move to favor by petition)
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