Job 8:5
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Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

thou wouldest.

Job 5:8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

Job 11:13 But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.

Job 22:21-30 Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits. . . .

2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers. . . .

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

Matthew 7:7,8 Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. . . .

Hebrews 3:7,8 Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his voice, . . .

James 4:7-10 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil: and he will fly from you. . . .

Context
Bildad: Job Should Repent
4Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity: 5Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:6If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:…
Cross References
Job 5:17
Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

Job 9:15
I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.

Job 22:23
If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.

Lexicon
But if
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you
אַ֭תָּה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

would earnestly seek
תְּשַׁחֵ֣ר (tə·ša·ḥêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7836: To dawn, be, early at any task, to search for

God
אֵ֑ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

and ask the Almighty
שַׁ֝דַּ֗י (day)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7706: The Almighty

for mercy,
תִּתְחַנָּֽן׃ (tiṯ·ḥan·nān)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2603: To bend, stoop in kindness to an inferior, to favor, bestow, to implore


Additional Translations
But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty;

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

But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.

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

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

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

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

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