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Job 22:23

Job 22:23
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust,.... Have such plenty of it, as not to be counted:

and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks; which was reckoned the best, probably in Arabia; not in the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 22:21-30

Methinks I can almost forgive Eliphaz his hard censures of Job, which we had in the beginning of the chapter, though they were very unjust and unkind, for this good counsel and encouragement which he…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

built up i. e. probably rebuilt, or, restored.

thou shalt put away Or, if thou put away. The words take up "if thou return" of the first clause.