Job 8:6
If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
5If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
Cross References
Job 1:8And the LORD said unto Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and turns away from evil?
Job 5:24And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.
Job 16:17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tabernacles.
Psalms 18:25With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;
Psalms 44:23Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off 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 →