Job 22:23
If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
22Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
24He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:13And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and Manasses knew that the Lord was God.
Job 8:6If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
Job 12:14If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a. man, there is none that can open.
Psalms 130:4The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:
Isaiah 31:6Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
Isaiah 55:6Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon 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 →