Job 8:6
if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
5if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
7And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
Cross References
Job 1:8And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.
Job 5:24And thou shall know that thy tent is in peace, and thou shall visit thy fold, and shall miss nothing.
Job 16:17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 22:23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shall be built up, thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
Psalms 18:25With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect.
Psalms 44:23Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:2-8
The Address of Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the… Read the whole commentary →