Albert Barnes Commentary Job 22:23

Albert Barnes Commentary

Job 22:23

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Job 22:23

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents." — Job 22:23 (ASV)

If you return to the Almighty - Assuming that he was an impenitent sinner, and wholly unreconciled to him.

You shall be built up - A figure taken from building up a house, in contradistinction to pulling one down, and denoting that he would be prospered and happy.

You shall put away iniquity - Rosenmuller, Good, Noyes, and Wemyss, suppose correctly, as it seems to me, that the word "if" is to be understood here to complete the sense - "if you shall put away iniquity."

From your tabernacle - From your tent, or dwelling.