Job 11:13
If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
In Context
12Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.
14If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
Cross References
Exodus 9:29And Moses said to him, When I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Jehovah: the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is Jehovah's.
2 Chronicles 12:14And he did evil, for he applied not his heart to seek Jehovah.
Job 5:8But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
Job 22:21Reconcile thyself now with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Psalms 78:8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Psalms 143:6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, [thirsteth] after thee. Selah.
Matthew Henry on Job 11:8-13
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? 11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Zophar here speaks very good… Read the whole commentary →