Job 22:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Zech 1:3 : 3 And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.
  • Job 11:13-14 : 13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him; 14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;
  • Job 8:5-6 : 5 If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; 6 If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near: 7 Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
  • Jer 31:4 : 4 I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad.
  • Hos 14:1-2 : 1 Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open. 2 O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.
  • Josh 7:13-16 : 13 Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you. 14 So in the morning you are to come near, tribe by tribe; and the tribe marked out by the Lord is to come near, family by family; and the family marked out by the Lord is to come near, house by house; and the house marked out by the Lord is to come near, man by man. 15 Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel. 16 So Joshua got up early in the morning, and made Israel come before him by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken;
  • Job 12:14 : 14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.
  • Job 18:15 : 15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.
  • Isa 19:22 : 22 And the Lord will send punishment on Egypt, and will make them well again; and when they come back to the Lord he will give ear to their prayer and take away their disease.
  • Isa 31:6 : 6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment. 4 And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.
  • Acts 26:20 : 20 But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.
  • Col 2:7 : 7 Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.
  • Jude 1:20 : 20 But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,

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    4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

    5 If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

    6 If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

    7 And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

  • Job 22:24-29
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    24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

    25 Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;

    26 For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.

    27 You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.

    28 Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.

    29 For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

  • Job 11:13-18
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    13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

    14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

    15 Then truly your face will be lifted up, with no mark of sin, and you will be fixed in your place without fear:

    16 For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

    17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

    18 And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;

  • Job 22:21-22
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    21 Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

    22 Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

  • Jer 4:1
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    1 If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

  • Jer 15:19
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    19 For this cause the Lord has said, If you will come back, then I will again let you take your place before me; and if you give out what is of value and not that which has no value, you will be as my mouth: let them come back to you, but do not go back to them.

  • Job 5:24
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    24 And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.

  • Job 15:13
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    13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • Job 34:32
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  • Job 6:29
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    29 Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

  • Job 22:3-4
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    3 Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

    4 Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

  • Job 15:4
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    4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

  • Job 33:5
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    5 If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.

  • Job 35:6
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    6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

  • Job 11:5-7
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    5 But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

    6 And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!

    7 Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

  • Job 35:3
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    3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

  • Job 19:5
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    5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

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    6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

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    26 He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;

  • Job 23:7
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    7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

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    5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

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    23 But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

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    14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

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    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • Job 36:21
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    21 Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.

  • Job 38:20
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    20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • Job 5:17
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    17 Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

  • Prov 22:27
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    27 If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

  • Job 34:10
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    10 Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

  • Job 13:22
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    22 Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

  • Lam 5:21
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    21 Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.

  • Ps 37:27
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    27 Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.