God’s Word Translation
Job 8:6
6if you are moral and ethical, then he will rise up on your behalf and prove your righteousness by rebuilding your home.
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
4If your children sinned against him, he allowed them to suffer the consequences of their sinfulness. 5If you search for God and plead for mercy from the Almighty, if you are moral and ethical, then he will rise up on your behalf and prove your righteousness by rebuilding your home. 7Then what you had in the past will seem small compared with the great prosperity you’ll have in the future. 8“Ask the people of past generations. Find out what their ancestors had learned.
Read all of Job 8Job 8:6 word by word
אִם־זַ֥ךְ וְיָשָׁ֗ר אָ֥תָּה כִּי־עַ֭תָּה יָעִ֣יר עָלֶ֑יךָ וְ֝שִׁלַּ֗ם נְוַ֣ת צִדְקֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 8:6
- Job 1:8The Lord asked Satan, “Have you thought about my servant Job? No one in the world is like him! He is a man of integrity: He is decent, he fears God, and he stays away from evil.”
- Job 4:6Doesn’t your fear of God give you confidence and your lifetime of integrity give you hope?
- Job 21:14But they say to God, ‘Leave us alone. We don’t want to know your ways.
- Job 16:17although my hands have done nothing violent, and my prayer is sincere.
- Psalms 26:5I have hated the mob of evildoers and will not sit with wicked people.
- Proverbs 15:8A sacrifice brought by wicked people is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayers of decent people please him.
- Isaiah 1:15So when you stretch out your hands ⌞in prayer⌟, I will turn my eyes away from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are covered with blood.
- 1 Timothy 2:8I want men to offer prayers everywhere. They should raise their hands in prayer after putting aside their anger and any quarrels they have with anyone.
- 1 John 3:19This is how we will know that we belong to the truth and how we will be reassured in his presence.
- Psalms 44:23Wake up! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject us forever!
- Psalms 59:4or any sin, or any guilt on my part. They hurry to take positions against me. Wake up, and help me; see ⌞for yourself⌟.
- Isaiah 51:9Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O Lord! Wake up as you did in days long past, as in generations long ago. Didn’t you cut Rahab into pieces and stab the serpent?
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will prosper. If you put wrongdoing out of your tent,
- Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous that blessings will come to them. They will taste 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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