Job 8:6
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Job 8:6 is Bildad's appeal urging Job to humility, with the implication that prosperity would follow if he were pure and upright. The promise is conditional: if Job were pure and upright, God would awake and act on his behalf to aid him and would make the habitation of his righteousness, his home and his life, prosperous. In saying this, Bildad with Job's three friends charged Job with sin, accusing him of hiding sin and of not being truly innocent, and declaring that his sufferings were because of sin.
They misjudged Job, for God was disciplining Job and bringing him through the fire of affliction. Their underlying belief that good is ultimately rewarded is generally true, but they wrongly applied it to Job, since suffering does not prove that a person is under God's displeasure. The verse also reflects the mistaken belief that suffering and poverty prove guilt and that prosperity proves righteousness, a reasoning about Job that God declared wrong.
As part of the friends' misguided speeches, the claims in this chapter are not reliable simply because they are recorded in Scripture, but must be tested against the rest of the Bible and must not be treated as true where they contradict inspired teaching. The verse belongs to the great problems of overruling providence and of sin and suffering, and shows how humanity is still prone to misjudge suffering fellows in the same way.