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Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those Who Seek Him

Job 5:24

In 11 translations

BSB
You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
KJV
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.thy tabernacle…: or, peace is thy tabernaclesin: or, err
WEB
You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
ASV
And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
LSV
And you have known that your tent [is] peace, || And inspected your habitation, and do not err,
YLT
And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,
DBY
And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou wilt survey thy fold, and miss nothing.
DRC
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.
GNV
And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.
JPS
And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.
LXXE
Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְֽ֭יָדַעְתָּ כִּי־שָׁל֣וֹם אָהֳלֶ֑ךָ וּֽפָקַדְתָּ֥ נָ֝וְךָ וְלֹ֣א תֶחֱטָֽא׃
LXX-Br
Εἶτα γνώσῃ ὅτι εἰρηνεύσει σου ὁ οἶκος· ἡ δὲ δίαιτα τῆς σκηνῆς σου οὐ μὴ ἁμάρτῃ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 121:7–8The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul. The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
  • Psalms 91:10no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.
  • Job 8:6if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
  • Deuteronomy 28:6You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
  • Isaiah 4:5–6Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy, a shelter to give shade from the…
  • Job 18:21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
  • Psalms 107:4Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
  • Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
  • Psalms 25:13His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
  • Job 21:7–9Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is…
  • Psalms 107:40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
  • 1 Samuel 30:3When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
  • Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

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