Job 8:6

“If thou [wert] pure and upright, etc.] By which he tacitly intimates that he was neither; though the character given of him is, that he was perfect and upright, feared God and eschewed evil, and which is confirmed by God himself, and even after he had been tried by sore afflictions. Bildad’s meaning is, if he was pure in heart, and upright in his life and conversation, then things would be well with him. Men’s hearts are naturally impure; no man is pure of himself, or can make his heart pure; nor is there any good man that is so pure as to be entirely free from sin; but such are pure in heart, who have clean hearts created, and right spirits renewed in them; or have new hearts and new…”

“He would awake for thee--that is, arise to thy help. God seemed to be asleep toward the sufferer (Psa 35:23; Psa 7:6; Isa 51:9). make . . . prosperous--restore to prosperity thy (their) righteous habitation. Bildad assumes it to have been heretofore the habitation of guilt.”

“If thou wert pure and upright - There is something especially severe and caustic in this whole speech of Bildad. He first assumes that the children of Job were cut off for impiety, and then takes it for granted that Job himself was not a pure and upright man. This inference he seems to have derived partly from the fact that he had been visited with so heavy calamities, and partly from the sentiments which Job had himself expressed. Nothing could be more unjust and severe, however, than to take it for granted that he was a hypocrite, and then proceed to argue as if that were a settled point. He does not make it a supposition that possibly Job might have erred - which would not have been…”

“Habitation - The concerns of thy house and family; which thou hast got and managed with righteousness. Job 8:8”

“thou wert: Job 1:8, Job 4:6, Job 4:7, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Job 16:17; Psa 26:5, Psa 26:6; Pro 15:8; Isa 1:15; Ti1 2:8; Jo1 3:19-22 he would: Psa 44:23, Psa 59:4, Psa 59:5; Isa 51:9 make: Job 22:23-30; Isa 3:10 Job 8:7”