Job 8:6

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

5If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

7And though thy beginning was small, yet thy end should greatly increase.

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Cross References

Job 1:8And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Hast thou considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil?'

Job 5:24And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt 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 shalt be built up — if thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents,

Psalms 18:25(18-26) With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright;

Psalms 44:23(44-24) Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.

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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