King James Version
Job 8:6 in the King James Version says “If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prospero...” — study this verse from Job chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.”
Job 8:6 · KJV
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; for: Heb. in the hand of their transgression
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“prosperous”
H7999to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate
“for thee and make the habitation”
H5116(adjectively) at home; hence (by implication of satisfaction) lovely; also (noun) a home, of god (temple), men (residence), flocks (pasture), or wild
“of thy righteousness”
H6664the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
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