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King James Version

Job 22:23

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Penitent;   Prosperity;   Repentance;   Righteous;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Evil Put Away;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prayer, Answers to;   Protection;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eliphaz;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Build up;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Justice;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Build;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Build;   Builder;   Eliphaz (2);   Job, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for February 7;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored— so clean up your life.
English Revised Version
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up; if thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
Update Bible Version
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, If you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
New Century Version
If you return to the Almighty, you will be blessed again. So remove evil from your house.
New English Translation
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,
Webster's Bible Translation
If thou shalt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
World English Bible
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, If you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
Amplified Bible
"If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up [and restored]; If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,
English Standard Version
If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If thou turnest ayen to Almyyti God, thou schalt be bildid; and thou schalt make wickidnesse fer fro thi tabernacle.
Berean Standard Bible
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
Contemporary English Version
If you return to God and turn from sin, all will go well for you.
American Standard Version
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
Bible in Basic English
If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;
Complete Jewish Bible
If you return to Shaddai, you will be built up. If you drive wickedness far from your tents,
Darby Translation
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,
Easy-to-Read Version
If you return to God All-Powerful, you will be restored. But remove the evil from your house.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up--if thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents,
King James Version (1611)
If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be built vp, thou shalt put away iniquitie farre from thy tabernacles.
New Life Bible
If you return to the All-powerful, things will be well with you again. Put sin far from your tent.
New Revised Standard
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored, if you remove unrighteousness from your tents,
Geneva Bible (1587)
If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.
George Lamsa Translation
If you shall repent before God, you shall be built up; if you shall put away iniquity from your dwelling place;
Good News Translation
Yes, you must humbly return to God and put an end to all the evil that is done in your house.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If thou return unto the Almighty and submit thyself, if thou far remove perversity from thy tent,
Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
Revised Standard Version
If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself, if you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For if thou wilt turne to the almightie, thou shalt be buyld vp, and put all vnrighteousnes from thy dwelling.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if thou shalt turn and humble thyself before the Lord, thou hast thus removed unrighteousness far from thy habitation.
Christian Standard Bible®
If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed.If you banish injustice from your tent
Hebrew Names Version
If you return to Shaddai, you shall be built up, If you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
Lexham English Bible
If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; if you remove wickedness from your tent,
Literal Translation
If you return to the Almighty you shall be built up; you shall put injustice far from your tents.
Young's Literal Translation
If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For yf thou wilt turne to the Allmightie, thou shalt stonde fast, & all vnrightuousnesse shall be farre from thy dwellinge:
New American Standard Bible
"If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored; If you remove injustice far from your tent,
New King James Version
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; You will remove iniquity far from your tents.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored; If you remove unrighteousness far from your tent,
Legacy Standard Bible
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored;If you remove unrighteousness far from your tent,

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

return: Job 8:5, Job 8:6, Job 11:13, Job 11:14, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Hosea 14:1, Hosea 14:2, Zechariah 1:3, Acts 26:20

built up: Job 12:14, Jeremiah 31:4, Colossians 2:7, Jude 1:20

thou shalt: Job 11:14, Job 18:15, Joshua 7:13-16, Isaiah 33:15, Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 5:4

put: 2 Timothy 2:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:7 - far from Exodus 38:21 - tabernacle of testimony Judges 6:25 - Take thy father's 1 Samuel 1:14 - put away 2 Chronicles 33:13 - he was entreated Job 36:11 - spend Proverbs 4:15 - General Malachi 3:15 - set Ephesians 4:22 - ye

Cross-References

Genesis 24:15
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
Genesis 24:24
And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
Genesis 24:47
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
Genesis 24:51
Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the Lord hath spoken.
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 25:20
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy mother's brother.
Genesis 28:5
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Romans 9:10
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thou return to the Almighty,.... Which supposes a departure from him; and that is by sinning against him, which should be repented of, confessed, and pardoning grace and mercy be implored, by all those that have backslidden, and return to God; to which they are encouraged by his being the "Almighty", who has power to forgive sins, also to cause all grace to abound, and to save to the uttermost; he is not a God that is prayed and returned to, that cannot save, or whose hand is shortened, or his ear heavy; the word is "shaddai", which signifies "[who is] sufficient", all sufficient; whose grace is sufficient to restore and receive backsliders, pardon their sins, accept their persons, supply their wants, and preserve them safe to his kingdom and glory:

thou shalt be built up; restored to his former happiness, have all his breaches repaired and made up; his body, which was like a building out of repair and dropping down, become hale and healthful; his family, which was in a ruinous condition, being deprived of his children as well as substance, be increasing again through a like number of children; by which means families are built up, Ruth 4:16; and by having a large affluence of good things, abundantly greater than he had before; and also, in a spiritual sense, be edified and built up in his soul, through the light of God's countenance, the discoveries of his love, the comforts of his spirit, an application of precious promises, and divine truths, and a communication of grace, and the blessings of it:

thou shall put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle; not commit it himself, nor connive at it in others, nor suffer it in his family, suggesting as if he had so done in times past; or remove men of iniquity, wicked men, from his house, and not allow them to dwell there; though rather this seems to be spoken of by way of promise, and as an encouragement to return to the Almighty; upon which all evils and calamities, the effects of sin and iniquity, should be removed from his house, and the apartments of it, they were now full of.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If thou return to the Almighty - Assuming that he was an impenitent sinner, and wholly unreconciled to him.

Thou shalt be built up - A figure taken from building up a house, in contradistinction from pulling one down, and denoting that he would be prospered and happy.

Thou shalt put away iniquity - Rosenmuller, Good, Noyes, and Wemyss, suppose correctly, as it seems to me, that the word “if” is to be understood here to complete the sense - “if thou shalt put away iniquity.”

From thy tabernacle - From thy tent, or dwelling.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 22:23. Thou shalt be built up — God will restore thee to thy wonted state of prosperity; and thou shalt again have a household, not only of servants, but of children also. So much may be Implied in the words, Thou shalt be BUILT UP. See my sermon on Job 22:21-23.


 
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