If you do good things, you will be right with me. Then I will accept you. But if you do wrong things, then that sin is in your life. Your sin will want to control you, but you must control that sin.” [27]
Job 11:14 - Easy To Read Version You should put away the sin\par that is in your home.\par Don’t let evil live in your tent.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, And let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you put sin out of your hand and far away from you and let not evil dwell in your tents; American Standard Version (1901) If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, And let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents. Common English Bible if you throw out the sin in your hands and don’t let injustice dwell in your tents, Catholic Public Domain Version If you would send away from you the iniquity that is in your hand, and not let injustice remain in your tabernacle, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and lot not injustice remain in thy tabernacle: |
If you do good things, you will be right with me. Then I will accept you. But if you do wrong things, then that sin is in your life. Your sin will want to control you, but you must control that sin.” [27]
The Lord used every prophet and every seer [205] to warn Israel and Judah. The Lord said, “Turn away from the evil things you do! Obey my commands and laws. Follow all the Law that I gave to your ancestors. [206] I used my servants the prophets to give this law to you.”
Job, come back to God All-Powerful,\par and you will be restored.\par But, you must remove the evil\par from your house.\par
No, it is because you have sinned much.\par Job, you never stop sinning!\par
God, even if I can’t see \{you\},\par please teach me\par \{the right way to live\}.\par If I have done wrong,\par I won’t do it again.’\par
Job, think about this:\par No innocent person was ever destroyed.\par Good people are never destroyed.\par
If you are pure and good,\par then he will quickly come to help you.\par He will give your family back to you.\par
I will carefully live a pure life.\par I will live a pure life in my house.\par Lord, when will you come to me?\par
“You people will raise your arms to pray to me—but I will refuse to look at you. You people will say more and more prayers—but I will refuse to listen to you. Why? Because your hands are covered with blood.
Come near to God and God will come near to you. You are sinners. So clean sin out of your lives. {\cf2\super [23]} You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.
Samuel told the people of Israel, “If you are really coming back to the Lord—with all your heart—then you must throw away your foreign gods. You must throw away your idols of Ashtoreth. [83] And you must give yourselves fully to the Lord. You must serve only the Lord! Then the Lord will save you from the Philistines.”