Job Chapter 8 verse 6 Holy Bible
If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
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If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.
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If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
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If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
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If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
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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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If pure and upright thou `art', Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - If thou wert pure and upright. Job had asserted this, not in so many words, but substantially (Job 6:29, 30). We have God's testimony that it was true (Job 1:8; Job 2:3); not, of course, in the sense that he was absolutely free from sin, but in that qualified sense in which "just," and "righteous," and "pure," and "holy" can be properly used of men. Bildad implies, without boldly asserting it, that he does not believe Job to deserve the epithets, either absolutely or in a qualified sense. If he were so, Surely now he (i.e. God) would awake for thee. This is a common anthropomorphism (see Psalm 7:6; Psalm 35:25; Psalm 44:23; Psalm 59:4, 5; Isaiah 51:9). And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous; or, make peaceful the habitation wherein thy righteousness dwelleth; i.e. make peaceful the habitation wherein thou, a righteous man ex hypothesi dwellest.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) If thou wert pure and upright.--Of course, then, there is but one inference: thou art not pure and upright. These are verily the wounds of a friend which are not faithful. Bildad brings to the maintenance of his point the experience of former generations. He wishes to be very orthodox in his assertions, and to base his statements upon authority, and he appeals to the experience of former ages long gone by, and calls them to attest the truth of what he says. He also, like Eliphaz, uses figures, and has recourse to metaphor, only his figures are highly obscure and admit of various explanations. We give that which seems to commend itself most to us. It appears, then, that Bildad contemplates two representative characters, the two which are so prominent throughout this book--namely, the righteous and the wicked. He depicts the latter first, and describes him under the likeness of the paper-reed, or rush that grows in the mire of Egyptian swamps, which, though surrounded with moisture, yet as a matter of fact is liable soon to wither: so is the wicked man, according to this moralist and philosopher. He is surrounded by mercies and blessings, but they avail him nought; he withereth in the midst of abundance.
