Job 8:6

If thou become pure and upright: surely then will he watch over thee, and restore thy righteous habitation.

Leeser Tanakh

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 wilt earnestly seek for God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

7And thy beginning will have been small; because thy latter end will grow up greatly.

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Cross References

Job 1:8Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Hast thou directed thy attention toward my servant Job; for there is none like him on the earth, a man perfect and upright, who feareth God, and escheweth evil?

Job 5:24And thou shalt know that there is peace in thy tent; and thou wilt look over thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.

Job 16:17Not because any violence is in my hands, and while my prayer is pure.

Job 22:23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, so thou wilt but remove wrong-doing far away from thy tents.

Psalms 18:25(18:26) With the kind thou wilt show thyself kind; with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright;

Psalms 44:23(44:24) Awake, wherefore wilt thou sleep, O Lord? arise, abandon us not 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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