Job 8:5

If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes . Here we have again an echo of the words of Eliphaz ( Job 5:8 ). There is a tacit assumption that Job has not had recourse to God, has not pleaded his cause with him or taken him into counsel; whereas all the evidence was the other way. Both when the first batch of calamities was reported to him ( Job 1:14-19 ), and when the stroke of disease came ( Job 2:10 ), Job cast his care on God, fell back on him, submitted himself to him unreservedly. "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord," he said in the one case; in the other, "What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" And make thy supplication to the Almighty; literally, make the Almighty gracious to thee. "