Job 8:6

If thou wert pure and upright . Job had asserted this, not in so many words, but substantially ( Job 6:29 , Job 6:30 ). We have God's testimony that it was true ( Job 1:8 ; Job 2:3 ); not, of course, in the sense that he was absolutely free from sin, but in that qualified sense in which "just," and "righteous," and "pure," and "holy" can be properly used of men. Bildad implies, without boldly asserting it, that he does not believe Job to deserve the epithets, either absolutely or in a qualified sense. If he were so, Surely now he ( i.e. God) would awake for thee. This is a common anthropomorphism (see Psalms 7:6 ; Psalms 35:25 ; Psalms 44:23 ; Psalms 59:4 , Psalms 59:5 ; Isaiah 51:9 ). And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous; or, make peaceful the habitation wherein thy righteousness dwelleth ; i.e. make peaceful the habitation wherein thou, a righteous man ex hypothesi , dwellest.