Teks -- Job 8:5 (NET)

8:5 But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

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Wesley: Job 8:5 - Betimes

Heb. rise early to seek him, if thou wouldest seek him speedily, early and diligently.

JFB: 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).

Clarke: Job 8:5 - If thou wouldest seek unto God

If thou wouldest seek unto God - Though God has so severely afflicted thee, and removed thy children by a terrible judgment; yet if thou wilt now humble thyself before him, and implore his mercy, thou shalt be saved. He cut them off in their sins, but he spares thee; and this is a proof that he waits to be gracious to thee.

TSK: Job 8:5 - thou wouldest

thou wouldest : Job 5:8, Job 11:13, Job 22:21-23, Job 22:24-30; 2Ch 33:12, 2Ch 33:13; Isa 55:6, Isa 55:7; Mat 7:7, Mat 7:8; Heb 3:7, Heb 3:8; Jam 4:7-10

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Poole: Job 8:5 - Seek unto God betimes

But, God hath spared thee, whom he might justly have destroyed with thy children, and thou art yet capable of his favour, if thou seek for it; and therefore cease from these causeless and unthankful complaints.

Seek unto God betimes Heb. rise early to seek him , i.e. if thou wouldst seek him speedily, early, and diligently. See Job 5:8 7:18,21 . But this may be understood of the time past; and this verse being connected with the next, may be thus rendered and understood, If thou hadst sought (for the future tense in the Hebrew is oft put for the past) unto God betimes , (as thou didst seem to do, Job 1:5 ) and made supplication to the Almighty; if withal thou hadst been pure and upright , i.e. if thy prayers had been accompanied with purity and uprightness of heart and life, they should have been heard and answered. But because thou didst regard iniquity in thy heart, therefore God would not hear and did not answer thy prayers, but answered thee with a curse instead of a blessing, as he useth to deal with hypocrites.

Gill: Job 8:5 - If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes // and make thy supplication to the Almighty

If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes,.... Here Bildad seems to think more mildly, and speak more kindly to Job, that though he had sinned, yet not in so gross a manner as his children, since he was spared, and they were not; and therefore if he would apply himself to God, and supplicate his grace and mercy, and live a godly life, it might yet be well with him, and he be restored to his former or to better circumstances; his sense is, that he would advise him, as Eliphaz had done before, Job 5:8; to seek unto God "by prayer", as the Targum adds, and of which it is explained in the next clause, and that he would do this "betimes", or "in the morning" ⁿ; which is a proper time for prayer, and was one of the seasons good men in former times made use of for that purpose; see Psa 5:3; or that he would seek him in the first place, and above all things, take the first opportunity to do it, without any procrastination of it, and that with eagerness and earnestness, with his whole heart and soul; for God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and those that seek him early shall find him:

and make thy supplication to the Almighty: not pleading any merit of his own, as deserving of any blessing on account of what he had done; but ask what he should as a favour, as a free gift, in a way of grace and mercy, as the word ^o signifies; call for the pity of the Almighty, as Broughton renders it.