If you do well, it will lift. But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the doorway. Its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
Job 11:14 - Tree of Life Version if you put away the wickedness that is in your hand, and allow no iniquity to abide in your tent, 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 well, it will lift. But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the doorway. Its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
Yet Adonai had forewarned Israel and Judah by the hand of every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the Torah which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets.”
If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; if you remove iniquity far from your tent
Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will not do it again.’
Reflect now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were the upright destroyed?
if you are pure and upright, even now He will awaken for you and restore your righteous abode.
I will behave wisely in the way of integrity —when will You come to me? I walk in my house with integrity in my heart.
When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. When you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood!”
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded!
Then Samuel spoke to the whole house of Israel saying, “If you are returning to Adonai with all your heart, then remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, direct your hearts to Adonai and serve Him only. Then He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”