if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
Parallel translations
- WEB If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
- KJV If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
- NKJV If iniquity were in your hand, and you put it far away, And would not let wickedness dwell in your tents;
- NASB If wrongdoing is in your hand, put it far away, And do not let malice dwell in your tents;
- NLT Get rid of your sins, and leave all iniquity behind you.
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Quick answer
Zophar tells Job to put away iniquity from his hand and let no wrong dwell in his home. He demands cleansing from sin.
Overview
Zophar urges Job to remove wickedness from his life and household as a condition of restoration. The general principle, to forsake sin, is biblical, but its application to the blameless Job is mistaken (Job 1:1). True cleansing from sin is not finally achieved by self-reform but received through Christ, who washes and renews His people (Isaiah 1:16-18; Titus 3:5).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
- Jas 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- Zech 5:3–4Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
- Ezek 18:30–31Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
- Job 34:32Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
- Ps 101:2I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.
- Job 22:5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
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