If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty; Treasury of Scripture thou wouldest. Job 5:8 I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause: Job 11:13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him; Job 22:21-30 Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come to you... 2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers... Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near... Matthew 7:7,8 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you... Hebrews 3:7,8 Why (as the Holy Ghost said, To day if you will hear his voice... James 4:7-10 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you...
Context Bildad: Job Should Repent
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? 3Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice? 4If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 5If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty; 6If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. 7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase. 8For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers: 9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:) 10Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart? 11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb. 13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: 14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. 15He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. 16He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden. 17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones. 18If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you. 19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. 20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: 21Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing. 22They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
Darby Bible Translation
If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
King James Bible
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Young's Literal Translation
If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
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