Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

New American Standard Bible

“If you would seek God
And implore the compassion of the Almighty,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

If you seek God, if you ask the Almighty for mercy,

A Conservative Version

if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“If you would [diligently] seek God
And implore the compassion and favor of the Almighty,

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

If thou shalt seek to God, if thou shalt make supplication to him;

King James 2000

If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty;

Lexham Expanded Bible

If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace.

Modern King James verseion

if you would seek earnestly to God and make your prayer to the Almighty;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If thou wouldest now resort unto God betimes, and make thy humble prayer to the Almighty;

NET Bible

But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD, - and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If thou wouldest seek
שׁחר 
Shachar 
Usage: 12

אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

שׁחר 
Shachar 
Usage: 12

References

Easton

Context Readings

Bildad's First Response To Job

4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand. 5 If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; 6 If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

Cross References

Job 11:13

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

Job 5:8

But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

Job 22:21-30

Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Matthew 7:7-8

Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

Hebrews 3:7-8

And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

James 4:7-10

For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

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