Holy Scripture
Job 11:13
A church father on this verse
“Zophar introduces himself as teacher and exhorts Job with the words, "Even if you are very clean, so clean that you stretch your hands continuously in prayer and ask for God's gifts, be still prepared to reject the evil that remains within you. Iniquity shall not reside in you." That means, "Even if you somehow start…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
13For if thou hast made thy heart pure, And liftest up thine hands toward him;
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11For he knows the works of transgressors; And when he sees wickedness, he will not overlook it.
12But man vainly buoys himself up with words; And a mortal born of woman is like an ass of the desert.
— Job 11:13 —
14If there is any iniquity in thy hands, Put it far from thee, And let not unrighteousness lodge in thy habitation.
15For thus shall thy countenance shine again, as pure water; And thou shalt divest thyself of uncleanness, and shalt not fear.