Parallel Verses
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.
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.
King James 2000
If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
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 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 earnestly to God and make your prayer to the Almighty; 6 if you were pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and make the dwelling-place of your righteousness blessed. 7 And if your beginning was small, yet your end would greatly increase.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 7:6
Arise, O Jehovah, in Your anger; lift up Yourself because of the rage of my enemies, and awake for me to the judgment which You have commanded.
Job 1:8
And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart against My servant Job, because there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil?
Job 4:6-7
Is not your reverence your hope? Is not your hope the uprightness of your ways?
Job 5:24
And you shall know that your tent is in peace; and you shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
Job 16:17
though no violence is in my hand, and my prayer is pure.
Job 21:14-15
And they say to God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways;
Job 22:23-30
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall put away injustice far from your tents.
Psalm 26:5-6
I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked.
Psalm 44:23
Awaken! Why do You sleep, O Jehovah? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
Psalm 59:4-5
Without my fault they run and prepare themselves; awaken to help me, and look on me.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is a hateful thing to Jehovah, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Isaiah 1:15
And when you spread out 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 to the righteous that it is well; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Isaiah 51:9
Awake! awake! Put on strength, O arm of Jehovah. Awake! as in the days of old, in the generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab into pieces, piercing the sea-monster?
1 Timothy 2:8
Therefore, I desire that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
1 John 3:19-22
And in this we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him,