Job 22:23
If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;
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In Context
22Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
24And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:13And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
Job 8:6If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.
Job 12:14Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.
Psalms 130:4But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
Isaiah 31:6Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
Isaiah 55:6Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
Matthew Henry on Job 22:22-30
The Good Counsel of Eliphaz; Encouragements to Return to God. ( b. c. 1520.) 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… Read the whole commentary →