Job 22:23
21 Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.
22 Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
24 and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
25 then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
- KJV
- If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
- WEB
- If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
- ASV
- If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
- DARBY
- If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,
- BLB
- If you should return to Shaddai, you will be built up, [if] you put far away from your tent iniquity,
- ÅB
- Vender du om til den Allmektige, da skal din lykke bli bygget opp igjen; men du må få urett bort fra dine telt.
- OTB
- Hvis du vender tilbake til Den Allmektige, vil du bli gjenopprettet;
hvis du fjerner ondskap langt fra ditt telt, - B1930
- Vender du om til den Allmektige, da skal din lykke bli bygget op igjen; men du må få urett bort fra dine telt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 11:13–14
As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
Read in contextZechariah 1:3
So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
Read in contextJob 8:5–6
But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
Read in contextIsaiah 55:6–7
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Read in contextHosea 14:1–2
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
Read in context2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”
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 contextJude 1:20
But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
Read in context