Job 8:6

If thou art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication, 1 And will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

5But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty. 1

7Though then thy beginning should be small, 1 Yet thy end should be unspeakably great. 1

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Cross References

Job 1:8And the Lord said to him, 1 Hast thou diligently considered my servant Job, 1 That there is none like him on the earth, 1 A man blameless, true, godly, 1 Abstaining from everything evil? 1

Job 5:24Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, 1 And the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail. 1

Job 16:17Yet there was no injustice in my hands, 1 And my prayer is pure. 1

Job 22:23And if thou shalt turn and humble thyself before the Lord, 1 Thou hast thus removed unrighteousness far from thy habitation. 1

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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