Job 8:6
If you [are] pure and upright, || Surely now He wakes for you, || And has completed || The habitation of your righteousness.
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In Context
5If you seek for God early, || And make supplication to the Mighty,
7And your beginning has been small, || And your latter end is very great.
Cross References
Job 1:8And YHWH says to Satan, “Have you set your heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?”
Job 5:24And you have known that your tent [is] peace, || And inspected your habitation, and do not err,
Job 16:17Not for violence in my hands, || And my prayer [is] pure.
Job 22:23If you return to the Mighty you are built up, || You put iniquity far from your tents.
Psalms 18:25With the kind You show Yourself kind, || With a perfect man You show Yourself perfect.
Psalms 44:23Stir up—why do You sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not cast us off forever.
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 →