Job 22:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־תָּשׁ֣וּב עַד־שַׁ֭דַּי תִּבָּנֶ֑ה תַּרְחִ֥יק עַ֝וְלָ֗ה מֵאָהֳלֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

ʾim-tāšûb ʿad-šadday tibbānê tarḥîq ʿawlâ mē-ʾāhŏlekā

Grammar Details

• *ʾim-tāšûb*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - if you return
• *ʿad-šadday*: preposition + divine name - to Shaddai/the Almighty
• *tibbānê*: Niphal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you will be built up
• *tarḥîq*: Hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you put far away
• *ʿawlâ*: noun, feminine singular - injustice/unrighteousness
• *mē-ʾāhŏlekā*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - from your tent

Word Meanings

• *tāšûb*: to return/turn back/repent
• *šadday*: Almighty (divine name)/All-sufficient One
• *tibbānê*: to be built up/established/restored
• *tarḥîq*: to put far/remove/distance
• *ʿawlâ*: injustice/unrighteousness/wrongdoing
• *ʾāhŏlekā*: your tent/dwelling/home

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice far from your tent,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For yf thou wilt turne to the Allmightie, thou shalt stonde fast, & all vnrightuousnesse shall be farre from thy dwellinge:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For if thou wilt turne to the almightie, thou shalt be buyld vp, and put all vnrighteousnes from thy dwelling.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• 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;

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Referenced Verses

• Zech 1:3 : 3 Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts.
• Job 11:13-14 : 13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him; 14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents.
• Job 8:5-6 : 5 If you would seek God earnestly, and make your supplication to the Almighty; 6 If you were pure and upright, surely now He would awaken for you, and make the dwelling of your righteousness prosperous.
• Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Jer 31:4 : 4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.
• Hos 14:1-2 : 1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so we will offer the sacrifice of our lips.
• Josh 7:13-16 : 13 Get up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel: you cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you. 14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD takes shall come according to the families; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man. 15 And it shall be, that he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has: because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done foolishness in Israel. 16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
• Job 12:14 : 14 Behold, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt: He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
• Job 18:15 : 15 It shall dwell in his tent, because it is no longer his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
• Isa 19:22 : 22 The LORD shall smite Egypt; He shall smite and heal it, and they shall return to the LORD. He shall be entreated by them and shall heal them.
• Isa 31:6 : 6 Turn to Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
• Isa 33:15 : 15 He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
• Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on this side; and everyone who swears shall be cut off according to it on that side. 4 I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.
• Acts 26:20 : 20 But showed first to those of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works fitting for repentance.
• Col 2:7 : 7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
• 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity."
• Jude 1:20 : 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,