Job 8:6

If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

In Context

5Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

7Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.

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Cross References

Job 1:8And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil?

Job 5:24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.

Job 16:17My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.

Job 22:23If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.

Psalms 18:25And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

Psalms 44:23Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.

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 →

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