Job 22:23
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Job 22:23 in other translations
| BSB | If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents |
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| WEB | If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. |
| ASV | If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents. |
| YLT | If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents. |
| DARBY | If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents, |
| BBE | If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents; |
| Webster | If thou shalt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. |
What does Job 22:23 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 22:21-30
The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had hitherto not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. The counsel Eliphaz here gives is good, though, as to Job, it was built upon a false supposition that he was a stranger and enemy to God. Let us beware of slandering our brethren; and if it be our lot to suffer in this manner, let us remember how Job was treated; yea, how…
Job 22:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 22:23
- Job 11:13-14
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
- Zechariah 1:3
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.
- Job 8:5-6
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
- Hosea 14:1-2
O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
- 2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
- Zechariah 5:3-4
Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
- Jude 1:20
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
- Acts 26:20
But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
- Joshua 7:13-16
Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you. In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man. And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel. So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
- Job 18:15
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
- Colossians 2:7
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
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Context
- Job 22:22
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
- Job 22:23
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
- Job 22:24
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Job 22:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si te tornares al Omnipotente, serás edificado; alejarás de tu tienda la aflicción; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Si tu retournes vers le Tout-puissant, tu seras rétabli. Si tu éloignes l’iniquité de ta tente, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn du zu dem Allmächtigen umkehrst, so wirst du wieder aufgebaut werden; wenn du Unrecht entfernst aus deinen Zelten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si reversus fueris ad Omnipotentem, ædificaberis, et longe facies iniquitatem a tabernaculo tuo. |