Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 8:6

6. If thou wert pure and upright , surely now he would awake for thee , and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

If thou wert in truth what thou pretendest, and hast been thought by others to be. pure and upright, i. e. of a sincere heart, and blameless life towards God and men. But God's severe dealing with thee is an evident token, that notwithstanding all thy fair shews, thou art but an Hypocrite and secret sinner▪ And this sense may seem to agree both with the same charge brought in against Iob by Eliphaz, Ch. 4. 6, 7. and with the following discourse, particularly with v. 13, 20. Or thus, If thou wouldest be pure and upright; i. e. if thou wouldest joyn Reformation to thy Supplication. And this sense may seem best to suit with the foregoing verse, according to the common Translation.

i. e. Bestir himself to help thee, as being his faithful friend and servant, whom he could not in honour or justice forsake; whereas now he shews a deep sleep, and wholly neglects thee, and turneth a deaf Ear to all thy prayers; which sheweth what opinion he hath of thee.

i▪ e▪ The concerns of thy house and family: An usual Metonymy.

Either 1. which thou hast go[illegible: 1+ letters] and managed with righteousness; so he calls it by way of supposition; if it were so, God would prosper thee accordingly. But because thou doest not prosper, it gives us cause to suspect that thou hast got thy estate by fraud and oppression. Or 2. Which thou shalt now manage with justice, and not wrongfully, as thou hast done.