If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Parallel translations
- WEB If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- BSB if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
- NKJV If you were pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you, And prosper your rightful dwelling place.
- NASB If you are pure and upright, Surely now He will stir Himself for you And restore your righteous estate.
- NLT and if you are pure and live with integrity, he will surely rise up and restore your happy home.
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Quick answer
Bildad claims that if Job were truly pure and upright, God would rouse himself and restore his household. He implies Job's loss proves impurity.
Overview
Bildad's logic is that purity guarantees prosperity, so Job's ruin must signal hidden sin. The reader knows from chapters 1-2 that Job actually is blameless, which makes Bildad's reasoning false in this case. The book dismantles the assumption that earthly fortune is an automatic measure of personal righteousness.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
- Job 5:24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
- Isa 3:10Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- Prov 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- Ps 7:6Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
- Ps 59:4–5They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
- Job 16:17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
- 1 Jn 3:19–22And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
- Ps 44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
- 1 Tim 2:8I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
- Isa 1:15And 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.
- Job 1:8And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
- Job 21:14–15Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- Ps 26:5–6I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
- Job 4:6–7Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
- Job 22:23–30If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
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