English Standard Version
Job 22:23
23If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents,
Job 22:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
- New International Version (NIV)If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored: If you remove wickedness far from your tent
- New King James Version (NKJV)If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; You will remove iniquity far from your tents.
- New Living Translation (NLT)If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored— so clean up your life.
Context of Job 22:23
21"Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. 22Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents, 24if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed, 25then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.
Read all of Job 22Job 22:23 word by word
אִם־תָּשׁ֣וּב עַד־שַׁ֭דַּי תִּבָּנֶ֑ה תַּרְחִ֥יק עַ֝וְלָ֗ה מֵאָהֳלֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 22:23
- Job 8:5If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,
- Job 11:13"If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
- Isaiah 55:6"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;
- Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
- Zechariah 1:3Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.
- Acts 26:20but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
- Job 12:14If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
- Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.
- Colossians 2:7rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
- Jude 1:20But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
- Job 11:14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
- Job 18:15In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
- Joshua 7:13Get up! Consecrate the people and say, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, "There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you."
- Isaiah 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
- Zechariah 5:3Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.
- 2 Timothy 2:19But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity."
Commentaries on Job 22:23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23Thou shalt be built up - God will restore thee to thy wonted state of prosperity; and thou shalt again have a household, not only of servants, but of children also. So much may be Implied in the words, Thou shalt be Built Up. See my sermon on Job 22:21-23.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-30Verses 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 Jesus was reviled, that we…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23return to the Almighty: Bildad and Zophar had already made a wrong application of this principle of the Bible (8:5–6; 11:13–14; Isaiah 55:6–7; Hosea 14:1–2; Zechariah 1:3; Acts 26:20). Now Eliphaz also makes a wrong application of it.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. Built up--anew, as a restored house. thou shalt put away--rather, "If thou put away" [Michaelis].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 22
- 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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