Job 22:23
If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.
24So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:13and prayeth unto Him, and He is entreated of him, and heareth his supplication, and bringeth him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knoweth that Jehovah — He [is] God.
Job 8:6If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
Job 12:14Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.
Psalms 130:4But with Thee [is] forgiveness, that Thou mayest be feared.
Isaiah 31:6Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostasy.
Isaiah 55:6Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye 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 →