Parallel Verses
King James 2000
If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
New American Standard Bible
Surely now
And restore your righteous
King James Version
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Holman Bible
then He will move even now on your behalf
and restore the home where your righteousness dwells.
International Standard Version
if you are clean and upright, surely then, he'll act on your behalf and restore your rightful place.
A Conservative Version
if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
American Standard Version
If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Amplified
Then, if you are pure and upright,
Surely now He will awaken for you
And restore your righteous place.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
Julia Smith Translation
If thou wert pure and upright, for now he will awake for thee and requite the habitation of thy justice.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If you [are] pure and upright, indeed, now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode.
Modern King James verseion
if you were pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and make the dwelling-place of your righteousness blessed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If thou wouldest live a pure and godly life; should he not wake up unto thee immediately, and give thee the beauty of righteousness again?
NET Bible
if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.
New Heart English Bible
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
The Emphasized Bible
If, pure and upright, thou thyself, art, surely, now, will he answer thy prayer, and will prosper thy righteous habitation:
Webster
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
World English Bible
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
Youngs Literal Translation
If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
Interlinear
Yashar
`uwr
Naveh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 8:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's First Response To Job
5 If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty; 6 If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. 7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 7:6
Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.
Job 1:8
And the LORD said unto Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one that fears God, and turns away from evil?
Job 4:6-7
Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?
Job 5:24
And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall find nothing amiss.
Job 16:17
Not for any violence in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
Job 21:14-15
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.
Job 22:23-30
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tents.
Psalm 26:5-6
I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit with the wicked.
Psalm 44:23
Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off forever.
Psalm 59:4-5
They run and prepare themselves apart from my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Isaiah 1:15
And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 3:10
Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not him who has cut Rahab, and wounded the sea monster?
1 Timothy 2:8
I desire therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
1 John 3:19-22
And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.