Job 8:6
if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
7Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
Cross References
Job 1:8Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
Job 5:24You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
Psalms 18:25To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
Psalms 44:23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us 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 →