Job 8:5 (BSB)
But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
Commentary on Job 8:5
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 8:1-7: Here, I. Bildad reproves Job for what he had said (Job 8:2), checks his passion, but perhaps (as is too common) with greater passion. We thought Job spoke a great deal of good sense and much to the purpose, and that he had reason and right on his side; but Bildad, like an eager angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things?
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 8:5: If thou wert pure and upright,.... By which he tacitly intimates that he was neither; though the character given of him is, that he was perfect and upright, feared God and eschewed evil, and which is confirmed by God himself, and even after he had been tried by sore afflictions.
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 8:5: seek unto God betimes--early. Make it the first and chief anxiety (Psa 78:34; Hos 5:15; Isa 26:9; Pro 8:17; Pro 13:24).
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 8:5: If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; (c) That is, if you turn while God calls you to repentance.