Job 22:23
If you return to the Mighty you are built up, || You put iniquity far from your tents.
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In Context
22Please receive a law from His mouth, || And set His sayings in your heart.
24So as to set a defense on the dust, || And a covering on a rock of the valleys.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:13and prays to Him, and He accepts his plea, and hears his supplication, and brings him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knows that He, YHWH, [is] God.
Job 8:6If you [are] pure and upright, || Surely now He wakes for you, || And has completed || The habitation of your righteousness.
Job 12:14Behold, He breaks down, and it is not built up, || He shuts against a man, || And it is not opened.
Psalms 130:4But forgiveness [is] with You, that You may be feared.
Isaiah 31:6Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel || Have deepened apostasy.
Isaiah 55:6Seek YHWH while He may be found, || Call 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 →