Job 22:22

King James Version

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Listen to his instructions, and store them in your heart.

English Revised Version
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

Update Bible Version
Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in your heart.

New Century Version
Accept teaching from his mouth, and keep his words in your heart.

New English Translation
Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart.

Webster's Bible Translation
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

World English Bible
Please receive instruction from his mouth, And lay up his words in your heart.

Amplified Bible
"Please receive the law and instruction from His mouth And establish His words in your heart and keep them.

English Standard Version
Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Take thou the lawe of his mouth, and sette thou hise wordis in thin herte.

Berean Standard Bible
Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

Contemporary English Version
Listen to his teachings and take them to heart.

American Standard Version
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.

Bible in Basic English
Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

Complete Jewish Bible
Please! Receive instruction from his mouth, and take his words to heart.

Darby Translation
Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

Easy-to-Read Version
Accept his teaching. Pay attention to what he says.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Receive, I pray thee, instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in thy heart.

King James Version (1611)
Receiue, I pray thee, the Lawe from his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.

New Life Bible
Receive the teaching from His mouth, and keep His words in your heart.

New Revised Standard
Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.

George Lamsa Translation
Receive the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Good News Translation
Accept the teaching he gives; keep his words in your heart.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Accept, I beseech thee, from his mouth - instruction, - and lay up his sayings in thy heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

Revised Standard Version
Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Receaue I pray thee the lawe at his mouth, and lay vp his wordes in thyne heart.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

Christian Standard Bible®
Receive instruction from his mouth,and place his sayings in your heart.

Hebrew Names Version
Please receive instruction from his mouth, And lay up his words in your heart.

Lexham English Bible
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.

Literal Translation
Now receive the Law from His mouth and put His words in your heart.

Young's Literal Translation
Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Receaue the lawe at his mouth, & laye vp his wordes in thine herte.

New American Standard Bible
"Please receive instruction from His mouth, And put His words in your heart.

New King James Version
Receive, please, instruction from His mouth, And lay up His words in your heart.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Please receive instruction from His mouth And establish His words in your heart.

Legacy Standard Bible
Please receive instruction from His mouthAnd set His words in your heart.

Contextual Overview

²¹ Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. ²² Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. ²³ If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. ²⁴ Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. ²⁵ Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. ²⁶ For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. ²⁷ Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. ²⁸ Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. ²⁹ When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. ³⁰ He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

receive: Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 4:2, Proverbs 2:1-9, 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:2

lay up: Job 23:12, Deuteronomy 6:6-9, Psalms 119:11, Proverbs 4:4, Proverbs 4:21, Jeremiah 15:16, Matthew 12:35, Matthew 13:52, Luke 2:19, Luke 2:51

Reciprocal: Job 11:13 - prepare Job 35:13 - God Proverbs 1:3 - receive Proverbs 4:10 - my Proverbs 7:1 - lay Isaiah 48:17 - which teacheth Jeremiah 9:20 - receive Ezekiel 3:10 - receive

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth,.... Not the law of Moses; for it is a question whether that was as yet, or could come to the knowledge of Job; rather any doctrine, as the word signifies, any revelation of the mind and will of God, made unto the patriarchs in former times, and which was handed down from one to another, and was to be received as coming from the mouth of God, not as the word of man, but as the word of God; and as such to be received with meekness and reverence, with readiness, cheerfulness, and gladness; and not only to be attended to but obeyed:

and lay up his words in thine heart: as a rich treasure, very valuable, and preferable to gold, silver, and precious stones, laid up in chests and cabinets because of their value, and that they might not be lost, but be preserved safe and sure, and that they might be come at, and made use of on proper occasions; as the words of God and doctrines of the Scriptures may be, against the temptations of Satan, the lusts of the flesh, and for the instruction of ourselves and others; and therefore should be retained in our minds, hid in our hearts, and dwell richly in us; and, unless they are in the heart, and have a place there, they will be of little avail to have them in the head or on the tongue; but if they come with power into the heart, and have a place there, they work effectually, and influence the life and conversation: these Job had, and had a great value for them; see Job 6:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth - Listen to his commands, and obey his precepts.

And lay up his words in thine heart - Embrace his truth, and do not forget it. Let it abide with you, and let it influence your secret feelings and the purposes of the soul.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 22:22. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth — Some, who wish to place Job before the law given by Moses, say that this means the Noahic precepts; others, that the law of nature is intended! Stuff and vanity! The allusion is plainly to the law given by God to the children of Israel, called here by way of emphasis, תורה torah, the LAW, which contained אמריו amaraiv, his WORDS, the words or sayings of God himself; consequently, it is not the Noahic precepts, nor the law of nature, neither of which were ever written or registered as the words of God's mouth.