Job 22:23
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tabernacles.
American King James Version (AKJV)
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tabernacles.
American Standard Version (ASV)
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;
Webster's Revision
If thou shalt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
World English Bible
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
English Revised Version (ERV)
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up; if thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
Definitions for Job 22:23
Clarke's Job 22:23 Bible Commentary
Thou shalt be built up - God will restore thee to thy wonted state of prosperity; and thou shalt again have a household, not only of servants, but of children also. So much may be Implied in the words, Thou shalt be Built Up. See my sermon on Job 22:21-23.
Barnes's Job 22:23 Bible Commentary
If thou return to the Almighty - Assuming that he was an impenitent sinner, and wholly unreconciled to him.
Thou shalt be built up - A figure taken from building up a house, in contradistinction from pulling one down, and denoting that he would be prospered and happy.
Thou shalt put away iniquity - Rosenmuller, Good, Noyes, and Wemyss, suppose correctly, as it seems to me, that the word "if" is to be understood here to complete the sense - "if thou shalt put away iniquity."
From thy tabernacle - From thy tent, or dwelling.
Wesley's Job 22:23 Bible Commentary
22:23 If — The Hebrew phrase is emphatical, and implies a thorough turning from sin, to God, so as to love him, and cleave to him, and sincerely devote a man's self to his fear and service.
Built — God will repair thy ruins, and give thee more children, and bless thee with prosperity.
Thou shalt — It is either, 1. a spiritual promise, if thou dost sincerely repent, God will give the grace effectually to reform thyself and family: or, 2. a temporal promise, thou shalt put away iniquity, or the punishment of thy sins; as iniquity is very often used: far from thy tabernacles; from all thy dwellings, and tents, and possessions.
