Job 22:23
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
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In Context
22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:13He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
Job 8:6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
Job 12:14Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
Psalms 130:4But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
Isaiah 31:6Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while he may be found. Call on 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 →