Job 8:5-7

Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent

⁵ If you will seek God
and _g plead with the Almighty for mercy,
⁶ if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will _h rouse himself for you
and _i restore your rightful habitation.
⁷ And though your beginning was small,
_j your latter days will be very great.

1. Cross References
   Job 9:15
   Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 7:6
   Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
   
3. Cross References
   Proverbs 3:33
   The Lord 's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.
   
4. Cross References
   Job 42:12
   And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
   James 5:11
   Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.