Job 22:23

"Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart."

Key Reflection

In Job 22:23, the speaker urges the listener to carefully heed and retain wise counsel. This advice reflects a cultural value of the time, where instruction from a sage or leader was seen as valuable and deserving of deep consideration. By "laying up his words in your heart," the speaker emphasizes not just hearing but internalizing this guidance—making it a part of one's very being, ensuring its influence on both thought and action.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

If thou return to the Almighty -Assuming that he was an impenitent sinner, and wholly unreconciled to him. Thou shalt be built up -A figure taken from building up a house, in contradistinction from pulling one down, and denoting that he would be prospered and happy. Thou shalt 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 thou shalt put away iniquity.” From thy tabernacle -From thy tent, or dwelling.

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