Job 8:6
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
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In Context
5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
Cross References
Job 1:8The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Job 5:24You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
Job 16:17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
Psalms 18:25With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
Psalms 44:23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t 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 →