Job 8:6

if thouwert pure Or, if thou be pure, cf. subjunctive in ch. Job 11:15.

surely now he would awake Rather, surely now he will awake. The words, if thou wilt seek, Job 8:5, suggest the right point of view from which to look at the words, if thou be pure, &c. The whole passage refers to the conduct which Bildad hopes for from Job. The meaning, therefore, does not seem to be, If thou be pure, as thou sayest, and as we have supposed thee; but rather, If thou become pure, through penitence, and by letting afflictions work the fruits of righteousness, cf. ch. Job 11:13 seq.

make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous Or, restore thy righteous habitation, that is, restore the lost prosperity (cf. Joel 2:25) of thy habitation, now become the abode of righteousness. Bildad comes out with his suspicions of Job's guilt much more explicitly than Eliphaz did; and similarly Zophar, ch. Job 11:13.