Christian Standard Bible
Job 11:14
14if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it, and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents —
Job 11:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
- New International Version (NIV)if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
- English Standard Version (ESV)If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If iniquity were in your hand, and you put it far away, And would not let wickedness dwell in your tents;
Context of Job 11:14
12But a stupid person will gain understanding as soon as a wild donkey is born a human! 13As for you, if you redirect your heart and spread out your hands to him in prayer — if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it, and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents — 15then you will hold your head high, free from fault. You will be firmly established and unafraid. 16For you will forget your suffering, recalling it only as water that has flowed by.
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אִם־אָ֣וֶן בְּ֭יָדְךָ הַרְחִיקֵ֑הוּ וְאַל־תַּשְׁכֵּ֖ן בְּאֹהָלֶ֣יךָ עַוְלָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:14
- Job 4:7Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?
- Job 22:5Isn’t your wickedness abundant and aren’t your iniquities endless?
- Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent
- Job 34:32Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I won’t do it again.”
- Ezekiel 18:30“Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each one of you according to his ways.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Repent and turn from all your rebellious acts, so they will not become a sinful stumbling block to you.
- James 4:8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- Psalms 101:2I will pay attention to the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will live with a heart of integrity in my house.
- Zechariah 5:3Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for everyone who is a thief, contrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who swears falsely, contrary to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished.
Commentaries on Job 11:14
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14If iniquity be in thine hand - If you have in your possession anything that has been unjustly obtained. If you have oppressed the poor and the fatherless, and have what properly belongs to them, let it be restored. This is the obvious duty of one who comes to God to implore his favor; compare Luke 19:8.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-20Verses 13-20 Zophar exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement, yet mixed with hard thoughts of him. He thought that worldly prosperity was always the lot of the righteous, and that Job was to be deemed a hypocrite unless his prosperity was restored. Then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; that is, thou mayst come boldly to the throne of grace, and not with the terror and amazement expressed in ch. 9:34. If we are looked upon in the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-14Zophar outlined three conditions for restoration (11:15): Direct your heart. This is an internal action beyond mere ceremony. Lift up your hands. This is a symbolic gesture of prayer, appeal, or act of surrendering (Exodus 9:29; Proverbs 1:24; Isaiah 1:15). Put away the iniquity. This is not through sacrifice and regret, but by quitting the sin in view (compare Hebrews 11:6; James 4:8; 5:16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. Rather, "if thou wilt put far away the iniquity in thine hand" (as Zaccheus did, Lu 19:8). The apodosis or conclusion is at Job 11:15, "then shalt thou," &c.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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