If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

  • KJV King James Version

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

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up — if thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents,

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Cross-references (17)

Passages linked to Job 22:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Job 11:13-14 “If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him. If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
  • Zechariah 1:3 Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Job 8:5-6 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
  • Isaiah 55:6-7 Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
  • Hosea 14:1-2 Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
  • Joshua 7:13-16 Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.” In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man. It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ” So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.
  • Zechariah 5:3-4 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”
  • Acts 26:20 but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
  • 2 Timothy 2:19 However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
  • Jude 1:20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
  • Job 12:14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
  • Job 18:15 There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
  • Isaiah 19:22 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
  • Isaiah 31:6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
  • Isaiah 33:15 He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
  • Jeremiah 31:4 I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.
  • Colossians 2:7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain God will restore unto thee all thy substance.

God will restore unto thee all thy substance.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To the Almighty; or, home to the Almighty; or,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust,.... Have…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain If - The Hebrew phrase is emphatical, and implies…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 23. Thou shalt be built up] God will…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 22:23. If thou return to the Almighty —…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain If thou return to the Almighty - Assuming that…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Built up--anew, as a restored house.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 23. To the Almighty — עד; even to —…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. built up] i. e. probably rebuilt, or, restored.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) Thou shalt put away iniquity.—All this implies the…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain If thou shalt return to the Almighty. Eliphaz, like…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain If thou return to the Almighty.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 22:23 return to the Almighty: Bildad (8:5-6) and Zophar…

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