Job 5:8 Meaning and Explanation
“I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:”
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Read Full Chapter →Eliphaz counsels that, in Job's place, he would turn to God and lay his case before Him.
What Does Job 5:8 Mean?
Having described the universal lot of trouble, Eliphaz now gives his counsel: were he in Job's situation, he would seek God and commit his cause to Him. He urges Job to take his complaint upward rather than nurse it inwardly.
Despite all that is flawed in Eliphaz's theology, this advice is sound and beautiful. To commit one's cause to God is to place the whole burden of one's life into trustworthy hands. This is the posture Job will ultimately reach, and the posture the gospel commends: casting every care upon the Lord, who invites the weary to come and find rest in Him.
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What does Job 5:8 mean?
Eliphaz counsels that, in Job's place, he would turn to God and lay his case before Him.