Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall put away injustice 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

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 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 Please receive 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 injustice far from your tents. 24 Then you shall lay up gold like dust, and among the rock of the torrents of Ophir.

Cross References

Job 11:13-14

If you prepare your heart and stretch out your hands toward Him;

Zechariah 1:3

And you say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn to Me, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I will turn to you, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Job 8:5-6

if you would seek earnestly to God and make your prayer to the Almighty;

Joshua 7:13-16

Up! Sanctify the people and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow. For thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, A cursed thing is in the midst of you, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the cursed thing from among you.

Job 12:14

Behold, He breaks down, and it can not be built up again; He shuts up a man, and no one opens.

Job 18:15

What is not his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be scattered on his home.

Isaiah 19:22

And Jehovah shall strike Egypt; He shall strike and heal; and they shall return to Jehovah, and He shall hear them and shall heal them.

Isaiah 31:6

Turn to Him from whom the sons of Israel have deeply revolted.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call on 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 put on your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.

Hosea 14:1-2

O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have fallen by your iniquity.

Zechariah 5:3-4

And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth; for from now on everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be cut off according to it.

Acts 26:20

But to those first in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea, and to the nations, I made known the command to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance

Colossians 2:7

rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

2 Timothy 2:19

Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal: "The Lord knew those who are His." And, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity!"

Jude 1:20

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

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