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Job 8:6 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. "
Job 8:6
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4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8 “Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
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Job 8:1
"Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,"
Job 8:2
"“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?"
Job 8:3
"Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?"
Job 8:4
"If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience."
Job 8:5
"If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty."
Job 8:7
"Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase."
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