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Job 22:13

And thou sayest, How doth God know? His wisdom cannot extend to the every-day affairs of men. Can He judge through the dark cloud? The idea is that God is wholly separated and shut off from the business of men, so that He does not concern Himself about them.

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See also Job 22:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THOU SAYEST, HOW DOTH GOD KNOW? - That is, it “follows” from what you have said; or the opinion which you have advanced is “the same” as if you had affirmed this. How common it is to charge a man...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE THIRD SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER 22 The Third Address of Eliphaz _ 1. Is not thy wickedness great? (Job 22:1)_ 2. In what Job had sinned (Job 22:6) 3. The omniscience of God and the ways...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 22. THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ. The only new thing that Eliphaz has to say, is definitely to describe the sin of Job! Yet his mildness makes him end with bright promises. JOB 22:1. Is it not to Job'...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AND, &C.. "and [yet may be] thou sayest". HOW... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. DARK CLOUD. Hebrew. _'araphel._ See note on Job 3:6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Third Circle of Speeches In the first round of speeches the three friends exhausted the argument from the general conception of God. In the second they exhausted the argument from the operation o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Eliphaz points to God's place of abode in the lofty heavens (Job 22:12); and under this feeling of His infinite distance from the earth Job said, How doth God know? Men's conduct was not observed by H...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Eliphaz, having in Job 22:6 suggested what Job's offences must have been, now suggests under what feeling in regard to God he must have committed them. He thought God so far removed from the world tha...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. Warning that all evil men have been punished (Job 22:12-20) TEXT 22:12-20 12 IS NOT GOD IN THE HEIGHT OF HEAVEN? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are! 13 And thou sayest, What...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THOU SAYEST, HOW DOTH GOD KNOW? CAN HE JUDGE THROUGH THE DARK CLOUD?_ Rather, And yet thou sayest, God does not concern himself with ("know") human affairs, (Psalms 73:11, "How doth God know? Is...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LAST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ 1-11. Eliphaz ignoring Job's last speech, perhaps because he could not answer it, argues that God's treatment of man must be impartial, since He has nothing to gain or lose...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 22 ELIPHAZ’S LAST SPEECH G...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Evil people imagine that God cannot see their evil deeds (Psalms 14:1)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְֽ֭ אָמַרְתָּ מַה ־יָּ֣דַֽע אֵ֑ל הַ בְעַ֖ד

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XIX. DOGMATIC AND MORAL ERROR Job 22:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE second colloquy has practically exhausted the subject of debate between Job and his friends. The three have really nothing more to say in t...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “ACQUAINT THYSELF WITH GOD” Job 22:1 Eliphaz opens the third cycle of the discussion with a speech altogether too hard and cruel. He begins with an _enumeration of Job's fancied misdeeds,_ Job 22:1....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third cycle in the controversy, and again EIiphaz is the first speaker. His address consisted of two movements. First, he made a definite charge against Job (1-20); and, second, he mad...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And thou sayest, How doth God (i) know? can he judge through the dark cloud? (i) He reproves Job, as though he denied God's providence and that he could not see the things that were done in this worl...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (5) В¶ Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? (6) For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. (7) Thou hast not given water...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THOU SAYEST, HOW DOTH GOD KNOW?.... What is done on earth, the works of the children of men, their sinful actions, when he dwells at such a distance, and so remote from the earth, as the height of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? Ver. 13. _And thou sayest, How doth God know?_] A brutish question, Psalms 94:7,8, and never of Job's making. There are a sort...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And_ Or _therefore, thou sayest, How doth God know?_ &c. From this true and certain principle, thou drawest a false and wicked conclusion, and fanciest, perhaps, that because he is so high he minds n...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S SIN EXPOSED BEFORE GOD (vv.1-8) Eliphaz considered that he was representing God in speaking, and exposing what he imagined were the sins of Job. He first asks a question that it is well worth...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HOW: Or, what...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "YOU SAY, "WHAT DOES GOD HOW?'": Eliphaz claimed that Job had been very insolent to question God's knowledge and His awareness of man. Actually, Job had said that God did know, and that was the very t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND, or, _therefore_; from this true and certain principle thou drawest this false and wicked conclusion. Or, _yet_, notwithstanding this undeniable argument. THOU SAYEST; thou reasonest thus within t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:13 say H559 (H8804) God H410 know H3045 (H8804) judge H8199 (H8799) darkness H6205 How - or, What

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Eliphaz's third discourse, accusing Job again of hypocrisy. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: It is the duty of those especially who are in affliction to keep up a perfect acquain...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 22:5. _Is not thy wickedness great?_ This speech of Eliphaz is cruel, and very much embittered; for it was mere suspicion that Job had robbed the widow, and stripped the naked. Job replies to it m...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Is not God in the height of heaven?_ GOD BROUGHT NEAR Is there anything that can make God a present God? Bring Him from the height of heaven beyond the stars into conscious contact with the experien...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Is not thy wickedness great?_ THE CHARGE AGAINST JOB I. Wrong in relation to man. In regard to the charge which he here brings against Job, it is worthy of note that whilst most expositors regard E...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:13 YOU SAY,... CAN HE JUDGE THROUGH THE DEEP DARKNESS? Eliphaz accuses Job of saying that God is so far above humans that he is unable to know about their lives....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE_ Remonstrates with Job on his self-righteousness, and plainly charges him with grievous transgressions as the cause of his present sufferings; concludes with pro...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 22:1 Eliphaz returns to the attack, but with observations that are at first strangely pointless and irrelevant, _e.g._ on the unprofitableness of man to God (verses l, 2), and on the s...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Eliphaz takes up the argument now. And the same old story: he accuses Job of being wicked and he actually makes many bad accusations. He said, Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise m...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 8:12; Ezekiel 9:9; Psalms 10:11; Psalms 59:7; Psalms 73:11;...

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