Job 5:8

⁶ Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

⁷ Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

⁹ Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

¹⁰ Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

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ÅB: Men jeg ville[^1] vende meg til Gud og overlate min sak til ham,
OTB: «Men jeg ville søke Gud,
Og jeg ville legge min bønn fram for Gud,
B1930: Men jeg vilde vende mig til Gud og overlate min sak til ham, / < om jeg var i ditt sted.>

BSB: However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
KJV: I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
WEB: “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
ASV: But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
DARBY: But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
BLB: But [as for] me, I would seek for God, and unto God I would commit my cause—

Psalms 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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Psalms 37:5
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
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Job 22:21
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
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2 Chronicles 33:12–13
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
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1 Peter 4:19
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
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Job 22:27
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
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2 Timothy 1:12
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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1 Peter 2:23
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
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