Job 11:13
Good News Translation
Put your heart right, Job. Reach out to God.

New Revised Standard Version
“If you direct your heart rightly, you will stretch out your hands toward him.

Contemporary English Version
Surrender your heart to God, turn to him in prayer,

New American Bible
If you set your heart aright and stretch out your hands toward him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.

prepare

Job 5:8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

Job 8:5,6 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: . . .

Job 22:21,22 Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits. . . .

1 Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If you turn to the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among you, Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

2 Chronicles 12:14 But he did evil, and did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.

2 Chronicles 19:3 But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away the groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the Lord the God of thy fathers.

Psalm 78:8 That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Luke 12:47 And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not himself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

stretch

Psalm 68:31 Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.

Psalm 88:9 My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

Psalm 143:6 I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.

Context
Zophar Rebukes Job
12A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt. 13But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.14If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:…
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If you turn to the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among you, Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

Job 5:17
Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

Job 15:12
Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things?

Job 22:23
If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.

Job 22:27
Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.

Psalm 77:2
In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted:

Psalm 78:8
That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 88:9
My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

Psalm 143:6
I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.

Job 11:12
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