Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

If thou return unto the Almighty and submit thyself, if thou far remove perversity from thy tent,

New American Standard Bible

“If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored;
If you remove unrighteousness far from your tent,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed.
If you banish injustice from your tent

International Standard Version

"If you return to the Almighty you'll be restored, as you remove iniquity from your household.

A Conservative Version

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shall be built up, thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

American Standard Version

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

Amplified


“If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up [and restored];
If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

Bible in Basic English

If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

Darby Translation

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,

Julia Smith Translation

If thou wilt turn back even to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt remove iniquity far off from thy tent

King James 2000

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tents.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; [if] you remove wickedness from your tent,

Modern King James verseion

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall put away injustice far from your tents.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For if thou wilt turn to the Almighty, thou shalt stand fast, and all unrighteousness shall be far from thy dwelling:

NET Bible

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,

New Heart English Bible

If you return to Shaddai, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If thou return
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

to the Almighty
שׁדּי 
Shadday 
Usage: 48

thou shalt be built up
בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

thou shalt put away
רחק 
Rachaq 
...far, ...off, ...away, remove, good way
Usage: 57

עלה עולה עולה עול עול 
`evel 
Usage: 53

far
רחק 
Rachaq 
...far, ...off, ...away, remove, good way
Usage: 57

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Third Speech

22 Accept, I beseech thee, from his mouth - instruction, - and lay up his sayings in thy heart. 23 If thou return unto the Almighty and submit thyself, if thou far remove perversity from thy tent, 24 Then lay up, in the dust, precious ore, and, among the stones of the torrent-beds, fine gold:

Cross References

Job 11:13-14

If, thou, hast prepared thy heart, and wilt spread forth, unto him, thy hands -

Zechariah 1:3

therefore shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Return ye unto me, urgeth Yahweh of hosts, - that I may return unto you, saith Yahweh of hosts.

Job 8:5-6

Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD, - and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;

Joshua 7:13-16

Up! hallow the people, and thou shalt say, Hallow yourselves by to-morrow, - for, Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel: A devoted thing, is in the midst of thee O Israel, Thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye have put away the devoted thing out of your midst.

Job 12:14

Lo! He pulleth down, and it cannot be built, He closeth up over a man, and it cannot be opened:

Job 18:15

There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;

Isaiah 19:22

And Yahweh, will plague Egypt, plague and heal, - And they will turn unto Yahweh And he will be entreated of them and will heal them.

Isaiah 31:6

Return ye unto him against whom the sons of Israel have deeply revolted,

Isaiah 33:15

He that walketh righteously, And speaketh uprightly, - He that refuseth the gain of exactions That shaketh his hands free from holding a bribe, That stoppeth his ear from hearkening to deeds of blood, And shutteth his eyes from giving countenance to wrong,

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek Yahweh while he may be found, - Call ye upon him while he is near:

Jeremiah 31:4

Again, will I build thee and thou shalt be built, thou virgin, Israel, - Again, shalt thou deck thyself with thy timbrels, And go forth in the dance of them that make merry:

Hosea 14:1-2

Return thou, O Israel, unto Yahweh thy God, - for thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

Zechariah 5:3-4

Then said he unto me, This, is the curse, which is going forth over the face of all the earth, - Because, every one who stealeth, on the one side, hath in one way been let off, and, every one who sweareth, on the other side, hath in another way been let off,

Acts 26:20

But - both to them in Damascus, first, and in Jerusalem, unto all the country of Judaea also, and unto the nations, I carried tidings - that they should repent, and turn unto God, and, works worthy of their repentance, should practise.

Colossians 2:7

Rooted, and being built up, in him, and making yourselves sure in your faith, even as ye have been taught, - surpassing therein with thanksgiving.

2 Timothy 2:19

Howbeit, the firm foundation of God, standeth, having this seal - The Lord hath acknowledged them who are his, and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord stand aloof from unrighteousness.

Jude 1:20

But, ye, beloved! building yourselves up in your most holy faith, in Holy Spirit, praying,

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