Job 5:8
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring {it} to pass. {Commit...: Heb. Roll thy way upon}
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. {him: that is, God}
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls {to him} in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. {believed: or, trusted}
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that {was} with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed {himself} to him that judgeth righteously: {himself: or, his cause}
[To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.] I cried unto God with my voice, {even} unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. {of: or, for}
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. {Commit: Heb. Roll}
The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Whom, though I were righteous, {yet} would I not answer, {but} I would make supplication to my judge.
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. {castest...: Heb. makest void} {prayer: or, speech}
{Are} the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, {It is} for Saul, and for {his} bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. {enquired...: Heb. sought the face, etc}
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, {are} in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred {by} all {that is} before them. {I considered...: Heb. I gave, or, set to my heart}