New English Translation
Job 11:14
14if iniquity is in your hand – put it far away, and do not let evil reside 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 an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being. 13“As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him, if iniquity is in your hand – put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents. 15For then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be securely established and will not fear. 16For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.
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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 4:7Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?
- Job 22:5Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?
- Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,
- Job 34:32Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’
- Ezekiel 18:30“Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct, O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and turn from all your wickedness; then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity.
- James 4:8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
- Psalms 101:2I will walk in the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace.
- Zechariah 5:3The speaker went on to say, “This is a curse traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals will be removed from the community; or on the other hand (according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.”
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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