Christian Standard Bible
Job 8:6
6if you are pure and upright, then he will move even now on your behalf and restore the home where your righteousness dwells.
Job 8:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- New International Version (NIV)if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.
- English Standard Version (ESV)if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If you were pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you, And prosper your rightful dwelling place.
Context of Job 8:6
4Since your children sinned against him, he gave them over to their rebellion. 5But if you earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, then he will move even now on your behalf and restore the home where your righteousness dwells. 7Then, even if your beginnings were modest, your final days will be full of prosperity. 8For ask the previous generation, and pay attention to what their ancestors discovered,
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אִם־זַ֥ךְ וְיָשָׁ֗ר אָ֥תָּה כִּי־עַ֭תָּה יָעִ֣יר עָלֶ֑יךָ וְ֝שִׁלַּ֗ם נְוַ֣ת צִדְקֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 8:6
- Job 1:8Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”
- Job 4:6Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?
- Job 21:14Yet they say to God, “Leave us alone! We don’t want to know your ways.
- Job 16:17although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.
- Psalms 26:5I hate a crowd of evildoers, and I do not sit with the wicked.
- Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- 1 Timothy 2:8Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument.
- 1 John 3:19This is how we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts before him
- Psalms 44:23Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping? Get up! Don’t reject us forever!
- Psalms 59:4For no fault of mine, they run and take up a position. Awake to help me, and take notice.
- Isaiah 51:9Wake up, wake up! Arm of the Lord, clothe yourself with strength. Wake up as in days past, as in generations long ago. Wasn’t it you who hacked Rahab to pieces, who pierced the sea monster?
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent
- Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous that it will go well for them, for they will eat the fruit of their labor.
Commentaries on Job 8:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6If thou wert pure and upright - Concerning thy guilt there can be no doubt; for if thou hadst been a holy man, and these calamities had occurred through accident, or merely by the malice of thy enemies, would not God, long ere this, have manifested his power and justice in thy behalf, punished thy enemies, and restored thee to affluence? The habitation of thy righteousness - Strongly ironical. If thy house had been as a temple of God, in which his worship…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6If thou wert pure and upright - There is something especially severe and caustic in this whole speech of Bildad. He first assumes that the children of Job were cut off for impiety, and then takes it for granted that Job himself was not a pure and upright man. This inference he seems to have derived partly from the fact that he had been visited with so heavy calamities, and partly from the sentiments which Job had himself expressed. Nothing could be more…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. He would awake for thee--that is, arise to thy help. God seemed to be asleep toward the sufferer (Psa 35:23; 7:6; Is 51:9). make ... prosperous--restore to prosperity thy (their) righteous habitation. Bildad assumes it to have been heretofore the habitation of guilt.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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