Job 11:14
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
In Context
13“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
15Surely then you will lift up your face without spot. Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear,
Cross References
2 Kings 17:13Yet the LORD testified to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
Job 8:6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
Psalms 101:2I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Ezekiel 18:30“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord GOD. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity will not be your ruin.
James 4:8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Matthew Henry on Job 11:14-20
13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. 15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: 16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: 17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. 18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea,… Read the whole commentary →