Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

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

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.

The Emphasized Bible

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

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 Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tents. 24 Then shall you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Cross References

Job 11:13-14

If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him;

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore say you unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn you unto me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, says the LORD of hosts.

Job 8:5-6

If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty;

Joshua 7:13-16

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow: for thus says the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel: you can not stand before your enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you.

Job 12:14

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Job 18:15

They shall dwell in his tent, who are none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Isaiah 19:22

And the LORD shall strike Egypt: he shall strike and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated by them, and shall heal them.

Isaiah 31:6

Turn unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

Isaiah 33:15

He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that keeps his hands from the holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you upon him while he is near:

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your timbrels, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

Hosea 14:1-2

O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your iniquity.

Zechariah 5:3-4

Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that steals shall be cut off according to the writing on this side; and every one that swears falsely shall be cut off according to the writing on that side.

Acts 26:20

But showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

Colossians 2:7

Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

2 Timothy 2:19

Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Jude 1:20

But you, beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

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