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The Book of Job, Chapter 22, Verse 23

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22
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
King James Version
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
American Standard Version
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
New English Translation
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,
World English Bible
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
24
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25
Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
26
For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
27
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
28
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
29
When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
30
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
1
Then Job answered and said,
2
Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!