Job 5:8,9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I would seek unto God, &c.— i.e. (For Eliphaz had precluded him from all attempts to justify himself in the foregoing part of his advice.) "I would apply to God with a full and free confession of those sins which have drawn this sad calamity upon me:" to God, who was able to do wonders, as he presently adds, and who could and would restore him to his former happy state, if he saw him truly penitent for his past transgressions; for this is the whole purport of the following part of his speech; namely, to give him hopes of a happy turn to his condition, if he would do what he thought was absolutely necessary to be done in this case; that is, make a frank confession of those secret crimes and enormities which had brought down this severe chastisement upon him. See Peters, and the 78th Psalm.