If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away. Umbreit translates-`If thou wilt put far away the iniquity in thine hand' (as Zaccheus did, Luke 19:8). The apodosis or conclusion is at Job 11:15, "then shalt thou," etc. The English version is better: so this (Job 11:14) is a parenthesis between Job 11:13 and Job 11:15: in Job 11:13 prayer is put as the condition, and in Job 11:15 deliverance from fear is declared to be the blessed consequence: but one precaution Job needs to take in order that his praying to God may not be vain-namely, he must put away all iniquity: this is inserted in Job 11:14 as a parenthesis between the protasis, Job 11:13, and the apodosis, Job 11:15. "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me" (Psalms 66:18).