Job 8:6

If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

Young's Literal Translation

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

5If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

7And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

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Cross References

Job 1:8And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy 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 thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,

Job 16:17Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure.

Job 22:23If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.

Psalms 18:25With the kind Thou showest Thyself kind, With a perfect man showest Thyself perfect.

Psalms 44:23Stir up — why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, 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 →

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