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Job 8:5 — If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

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

Correlating Passages

thou wouldest

	Job 5:8	I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
	Job 11:13	If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
	Job 22:21	Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
	Job 22:22	Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
	Job 22:23	If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
	Job 22:24	Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
	Job 22:25	Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
	Job 22:26	For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
	Job 22:27	Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
	Job 22:28	Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
	Job 22:29	When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
	Job 22:30	He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
	2Ch 33:12	And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
	2Ch 33:13	And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.
	Isa 55:6	Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
	Isa 55:7	Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
	Mat 7:7	Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
	Mat 7:8	For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
	Hbr 3:7	Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
	Hbr 3:8	Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
	Jam 4:7	Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
	Jam 4:8	Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.
	Jam 4:9	Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
	Jam 4:10	Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

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