Job 11:14

12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

13 As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,

15 then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.

16 For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
KJV
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
WEB
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
ASV
If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, And let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.
DARBY
If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
BLB
if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let injustice dwell in your tents.
ÅB
er det synd i din hånd, da ha den bort og la ikke urett bo i dine telt -
OTB
hvis det er noe galt i din hånd, fjern det,
og la ikke ondskap bo i dine telt,
B1930
er det synd i din hånd, da ha den bort og la ikke urett bo i dine telt -

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 22:23

    If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

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  • James 4:8

    Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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  • Job 4:7

    Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

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  • Psalms 101:2

    I will ponder the way that is blameless— when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.

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  • Isaiah 1:15

    When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

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  • Zechariah 5:3–4

    Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.

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  • Job 34:32

    Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’

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  • Job 22:5

    Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

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