Job 8:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:6 : 6 Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.
  • 1 John 3:19-22 : 19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him, 20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things. 21 My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him; 22 And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
  • Job 1:8 : 8 And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?
  • Job 4:6-7 : 6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope? 7 Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?
  • Job 5:24 : 24 And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.
  • Job 16:17 : 17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. 15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
  • Job 22:23-30 : 23 If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents; 24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys; 25 Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver; 26 For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God. 27 You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths. 28 Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways. 29 For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit. 30 He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.
  • Ps 26:5-6 : 5 I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners. 6 I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
  • Ps 44:23 : 23 Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.
  • Ps 59:4-5 : 4 For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see. 5 You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 3:10 : 10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
  • Isa 51:9 : 9 Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.

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    23 If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

    24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

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    26 For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.

    27 You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.

    28 Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.

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    7 And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

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    13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

    14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

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  • Job 7:21
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    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

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    4 You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

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    3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

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    3 Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

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    8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

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    19 Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.

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    17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

    18 And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;

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    21 Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

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    8 Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

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