King James Version
Job 11:14 in the King James Version says “If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.” — study this verse from Job chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.”
Job 11:14 · KJV
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. vain: Heb. empty
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“If iniquity”
H205strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
“be in thine hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“put it far away”
H7368to widen (in any direction), i.e., (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
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