Job 22:23
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, 1 if you put unrighteousness far away from your tents. 1
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22Receive, I beg you, instruction from his mouth; 1 store up his words in your heart. 1
24Lay your treasure down in the dust, 1 the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks, 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:13He prayed to him; and God was begged by him, and God heard his begging and brought him back to Jerusalem, into his kingship. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
Job 8:6If you are pure and upright, 1 then he would surely stir himself on your behalf 1 and restore you to your rightful place. 1
Job 12:14See, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again; 1 if he imprisons someone, there can be no release. 1
Psalms 130:4But there is forgiveness with you, 1 that you may be revered. 1
Isaiah 31:6Return to him from whom you have deeply turned away, people of Israel.
Isaiah 55:6Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call on him while he is nearby. 1
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 →