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
Read in contextJames 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.
Read in contextJob 4:7
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Read in contextPsalms 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextZechariah 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.
Read in contextJob 34:32
Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
Read in contextJob 22:5
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
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