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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 unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, and fearing God, and eschewing evil? (Job 1:8)
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Job 4:6‑7• 6[Is] not thy fear thy confidence,{HR}And the uprightness of thy ways thy hope?
 7Remember, I pray thee, who perished being innocent?{HR}Or where have the upright been blotted out? (Job 4:6‑7)
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Job 21:14‑15• 14Yet they say to God, Depart from us,{HR}For we desired not the knowledge of thy ways:
 15What [is] the Almighty that we should serve him?{HR}And what profit have we if we meet him? (Job 21:14‑15)
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Job 16:17• 17Though no violence [is] in my hands,{HR}And my prayer [is] pure. (Job 16:17)
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Psa. 26:5‑6• 5I have hated the congregation of evil doers,{HR}And with the wicked I sit not.
 6I wash my hands in innocency,{HR}And I surround 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;{HR}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 wish then that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting; (1 Tim. 2:8)
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1 John 3:19‑22• 19And herein we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him,
 20that if our heart condemn us, [it is] that God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
 21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God,
 22and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things pleasing in his sight. (1 John 3:19‑22)
he would.
Psa. 44:23• 23Awake; why sleepest thou, Ο Lord?{HR}Arise, cast us not off forever. (Psa. 44:23)
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Psa. 59:4‑5• 4Without [my] iniquity they run and set themselves:{HR}Awake to meet me and see.
 5And thou, Jehovah, God of hosts, God of Israel,{HR}Arise to visit all the nations;{HR}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 ancient days, the generations of old. [Art] thou not he that cut Rahab in pieces, [and] wounded the monster? (Isa. 51:9)
make.
Job 22:23‑30• 23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up;{HR}([If] thou put iniquity far away from thy tent),
 24And put precious ore on the dust,{HR}And that of Ophir as stones of brooks;
 25And the Almighty shall be thy precious ores,{HR}And silver of toilings to thee.
 26For then in the Almighty shalt thou delight,{HR}And lift up thy face to God [Eloah].
 27Thou shalt pray to him, and he shall hear thee,{HR}And thou shalt pay thy vows,
 28And thou shalt decree a thing, and it is established to thee,{HR}And light shall shine on thy ways.
 29When they are dejected, then shalt thou say, Lift up,{HR}And he will save him of downcast eyes;
 30He will deliver him that is not guiltless,{HR}And he is rescued by the cleanness 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;

W. Kelly Translation

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If thou [wert] pure and upright,{HR}He would surely now wake up for thee,{HR}And restore the habitation of thy righteousness;