Job 22:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Job 22:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If thou return to the Almighty - Assuming that he was an impenitent sinner, and wholly unreconciled to him. Thou shalt be built up - A figure taken from building up a house, in contradistinct...
Job 22:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt (r) be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. (r) God will restore to you all your substance.
Job 22:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 22. Third Speech of Eliphaz. The only new thing that Eliphaz has to say, is definitely to describe the sin of Job! Yet his mildness makes him end with bright promises. Job 22:1-5 . Is it n...
Job 22:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

return. Septuagint adds "and submit thyself". tabernacles . tents. Some codices, with four early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "tent"; others, with six early printed edi...
Job 22:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. Thou shalt be built up - God will restore thee to thy wonted state of prosperity; and th...
Job 22:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. Built up - anew, as a restored house. Thou shalt put away - rather, if thou...
Job 22:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Last Speech of Eliphaz 1-11. Eliphaz ignoring Job's last speech, perhaps because he could not answer it, argues that God's treatment of man must be impartial, since He has nothing to gain or l...
Job 22:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thou shalt put away iniquity. — All this implies the imputation of apostasy and iniquity to Job.
Job 22:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XIX. DOGMATIC AND MORAL ERROR Job 22:1-30 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE second colloquy has practically exhausted the subject of debate between Job and his friends. The three have really nothing more to...
Job 22:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Acquaint Thyself with God” Job 22:1-30 Eliphaz opens the third cycle of the discussion with a speech altogether too hard and cruel. He begins with an enumeration of Job's fancied misdeeds,...
Job 22:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the third cycle in the controversy, and again EIiphaz is the first speaker. His address consisted of two movements. First, he made a definite charge against Job (1-20); and, second, he ma...
Job 22:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(23) If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. (24) Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of th...
Job 22:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If thou return to the Almighty ,.... Which supposes a departure from him; and that is by sinning against him, which should be repented of, confessed, and pardoning grace and mercy be implored, by al...
Job 22:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. Ver. 23. If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up ] By sin men run from...
Job 22:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If thou return to the Almighty The Hebrew phrase, תשׁוב עד שׁדי, tashub gnad shaddai , is emphatical, and implies a thorough turning from sin to God, so as to love him, and cleave to him, and sinc...
Job 22:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB'S SIN EXPOSED BEFORE GOD (vv.1-8) Eliphaz considered that he was representing God in speaking, and exposing what he imagined were the sins of Job. He first asks a question that it is well wo...
Job 22:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Good Counsel of Eliphaz; Encouragements to Return to God. B. C. 1520. 21 Acquaint...
Job 22:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To the Almighty; or, home to the Almighty ; or, so as to reach to the Almighty , and be joined to him. The Hebrew phrase is extraordinary, and emphatical, and implies a thorough and effectual tur...
Job 22:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE Remonstrates with Job on his self-righteousness, and plainly charges him with grievous transgressions as the cause of his present sufferings; concludes with...
Job 22:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 22:5 . Is not thy wickedness great? This speech of Eliphaz is cruel, and very much embittered; for it was mere suspicion that Job had robbed the widow, and stripped the naked. Job replies to i...
Job 22:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

If thou return to the Almighty. Spiritual Reformation I. The nature of a true spiritual reformation is here set forth. 1. Reconciliation to God. Men in their unregenerate state are out of sy...
Job 22:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 22:1-18 Eliphaz returns to the attack, but with observations that are at first strangely pointless and irrelevant, e.g. on the unprofitableness of man to God (verses l, 2),...
Job 22:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An Admonition to Repent
Job 22:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 2:19 ; Acts 26:20 ; Colossians 2:7 ; Hosea 14:1 ; Hosea 14:2 ; Isaiah 33:15 ; Isaiah 55:6 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; Jeremiah 31:4 ; Job 11:13 ; Job 11:14 ; Job 12:14 ; Job 18:15 ; Job 8...
Job 22:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

If — The Hebrew phrase is emphatical, and implies a thorough turning from sin, to God, so as to love him, and cleave to him, and sincerely devote a man's self to his fear and service. Built — God w...

Job 22:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 22:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 22:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 22:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 22:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 22:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 22:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 22:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 22:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 22:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 22:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 22:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 22:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 22:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 22:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 22:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 22:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 22:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 22:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 22:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 22:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 22:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 22:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 22:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 22:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes