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Job 8:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If thou wert pure
zak (Hebrew #2134)
clear
KJV usage: clean, pure.
Pronounce: zak
Origin: from 2141
and upright
yashar (Hebrew #3477)
straight (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), + pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
Pronounce: yaw-shawr'
Origin: from 3474
; surely now he would awake
`uwr (Hebrew #5782)
to wake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (a- )wake(-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Pronounce: oor
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 5783 through the idea of opening the eyes)
for thee, and make the habitation
naveh (Hebrew #5116)
from 5115; (adjectively) at home; hence (by implication of satisfaction) lovely; also (noun) a home, of God (temple), men (residence), flocks (pasture), or wild animals (den)
KJV usage: comely, dwelling (place), fold, habitation, pleasant place, sheepcote, stable, tarried.
Pronounce: naw-veh'
Origin: or (feminine) navah {naw-vaw'}
of thy righteousness
tsedeq (Hebrew #6664)
the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
KJV usage: X even, (X that which is altogether) just(-ice), ((un-))right(-eous) (cause, -ly, - ness).
Pronounce: tseh'-dek
Origin: from 6663
prosperous
shalam (Hebrew #7999)
to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications)
KJV usage: make amends, (make an) end, finish, full, give again, make good, (re-)pay (again), (make) (to) (be at) peace(-able), that is perfect, perform, (make) prosper(-ous), recompense, render, requite, make restitution, restore, reward, X surely.
Pronounce: shaw-lam'
Origin: a primitive root
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thou wert.
Job 1:8• 8And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? (Job 1:8)
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Job 4:6‑7• 6Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?
 7Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off? (Job 4:6‑7)
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Job 21:14‑15• 14And they say unto *God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
 15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? (Job 21:14‑15)
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Job 16:17• 17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. (Job 16:17)
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Psa. 26:5‑6• 5I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked.
 6I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah, (Psa. 26:5‑6)
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Prov. 15:8• 8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; but the prayer of the upright is his delight. (Prov. 15:8)
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Isa. 1:15• 15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (Isa. 1:15)
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1 Tim. 2:8• 8I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning. (1 Tim. 2:8)
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1 John 3:19‑22• 19And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him--
 20that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
 21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards God,
 22and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight. (1 John 3:19‑22)
he would.
Psa. 44:23• 23Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. (Psa. 44:23)
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Psa. 59:4‑5• 4They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to meet me, and behold.
 5Yea, do thou, Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations: be not gracious to any plotters of iniquity. Selah. (Psa. 59:4‑5)
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Isa. 51:9• 9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, as in the generations of passed ages. Is it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces, and pierced the monster? (Isa. 51:9)
make.
Job 22:23‑30• 23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,
 24And put the precious ore with the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrents,
 25Then the Almighty will be thy precious ore, and silver heaped up unto thee;
 26Yea, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto +God:
 27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows;
 28And thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and light shall shine upon thy ways.
 29When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.
 30Even him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands. (Job 22:23‑30)
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Isa. 3:10• 10Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. (Isa. 3:10)
• Why did not Job, and Bildad also, pause and ask if there was not something wrong in the premise: Does God always punish for sin alone? (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• “If thou art pure and upright” —there is a strong suggestion of suspicion here—God will restore all, and bless Job’s latter end. This indeed was fulfilled, but in a vastly different way from what Bildad expected; Job is blessed not for his purity, nor because of confession of suspected evil. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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;