Job 8:6
If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness,
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In Context
5even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty.
7so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.
Cross References
Job 1:8And the Lord said to him, “Have you not considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil.”
Job 5:24And you will know that your home has peace, and, concerning your appearance, you will not sin.
Job 16:17My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.
Job 22:23If you will return to the Almighty, you will be rebuilt, and you will put sinfulness far from your tabernacle.
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 →