Job 5:8

Fourth double strophe GOD’S MORAL GOVERNMENT, Job 5:8-16.

First strophe His government is as beneficent in the moral as in the natural world, Job 5:8-11.

8. I would seek Literally, But I, I would seek. As for me, whatever others may do, I would seek unto God. He proposes to go, not to saints or angels, or through the medium of saints or angels, but directly to God himself.

God The first name of God is El, the second Elohim. The first designation of God presents him as the mighty one; the second, as “God in the totality of his variously manifested nature.” He turns with strongest aversion from the thought of Job’s outcries of despair, in like manner as afterward (Job 22:18) from the spectacle of successful antediluvian sinners, and betakes himself to God.