Job 22:22
Good News Translation
Accept the teaching he gives; keep his words in your heart.

New Revised Standard Version
Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Contemporary English Version
Listen to his teachings and take them to heart.

New American Bible
Receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

receive

Deuteronomy 4:1,2 And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you. . . .

Proverbs 2:1-9 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:1,2 For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more. . . .

lay up

Job 23:12 I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: . . .

Psalm 119:11 Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.

Proverbs 4:4,21 Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. . . .

Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.

Matthew 12:35 A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

Matthew 13:52 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

Luke 2:19,51 But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart. . . .

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
21Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits. 22Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.23If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.…
Cross References
Job 6:10
And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one.

Job 23:12
I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

Proverbs 2:6
He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,

Ezekiel 3:10
And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart, and hear with thy ears, all the words that I speak to thee:

Job 22:21
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