Job 8:6
If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
5If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;
7And though your start was small, your end will be very great.
Cross References
Job 1:8And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?
Job 5:24And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.
Job 16:17Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Job 22:23If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;
Psalms 18:25\18:24\Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
Psalms 44:23\44:22\Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.
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 →