Cross references

Job 8:5

But if you would earnestly seek God

and ask the Almighty for mercy,

Job 8:5 BSB

Job 8:5 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to James 4:7–10 (8 votes) and Job 11:13 (7 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from 2 Chronicles 33 to James 4.

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Which verses does Job 8:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. …

  2. Job 11:137 votes

    As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

  3. Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

  4. Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

  5. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

  6. And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers. And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition. So He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.

  7. Job 5:84 votes

    However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

  8. Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you. Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart. …

Which verses point to Job 8:5?

The 10 strongest of 11.