Eliphaz: Can a Man Be of Use to God?
Job 22:23
In 11 translations
- 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.
- LSV
- If you return to the Mighty you are built up, || You put iniquity far from your tents.
- YLT
- If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.
- DBY
- If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,
- DRC
- If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
- GNV
- If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.
- JPS
- If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up — if thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents,
- LXXE
- And if thou shalt turn and humble thyself before the Lord, thou hast thus removed unrighteousness far from thy habitation.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אִם־תָּשׁ֣וּב עַד־שַׁ֭דַּי תִּבָּנֶ֑ה תַּרְחִ֥יק עַ֝וְלָ֗ה מֵאָהֳלֶֽךָ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐὰν δὲ ἐπιστραφῇς καὶ ταπεινώσῃς σεαυτὸν ἔναντι Κυρίου, πόῤῥω ἐποίησας ἀπὸ διαίτης σου ἄδικον.
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 11:13–14As 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,
- Zechariah 1:3So 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.’
- Job 8:5–6But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
- Isaiah 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our…
- Hosea 14:1–2Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the…
- Jude 1:20But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
- Acts 26:20First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
- Zechariah 5:3–4Then 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…
- 2 Timothy 2:19Nevertheless, 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.”
- Joshua 7:13–16Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against…
- Isaiah 19:22And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.
- Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
- Colossians 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
- Isaiah 31:6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
- Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
- Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
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