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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Job 22:5

Thy great sins are the true and only causes of thy misery. The words may very well be rendered thus, Is not thy evil (i.e. thy punishment or affliction, which is frequently expressed by this very word) great, because (the particle and being oft used causally, as it is Genesis 18:13 Genesis 22:12 Genesis 24:56 Isaiah 34:1 Isaiah 64:5) thine iniquities are infinite? Are not thy calamities procured by and proportionable to thy sins? Thy own conscience tells thee they are so. And therefore thou hast no reason to accuse God, nor any person but thyself.

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See also Job 22:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 22:5. IS _NOT THY WICKEDNESS GREAT?_] Thy sins are not only _many_, but they are _great_; and of thy continuance in them _there_ _is no end_, אין קץ ein kets....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS NOT THY WICKEDNESS GREAT? - That is, “Is it not utter presumption and folly for a man, whose wickedness is undoubtedly so great, to presume to enter into a litigation with God?” Eliphaz here “assum...

  • 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'...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job's afflictions are because of his sins sins which Eliphaz now suggests and enumerates. They are such sins as a powerful Oriental ruler naturally falls into, inhumanity, avarice, and abuse of power....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    God's treatment of men cannot be due to any respect which He has to Himself, for He is too lofty to be affected by anything human. He deals with men according to their ways, and Job's afflictions can...

  • 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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. FALLACIES, FOLLIES, AND LOGOTHERAPYTHIRD TIME'S A CHARM (Job 22:1, Job 26:14) A. ELIPHAZ ON THE FUNCTIONAL VALUE OF MAN (Job 22:1-30) 1. God, needing nothing, is not self-seeking in punishing...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IS NOT THY WICKEDNESS GREAT? AND THINE INIQUITIES INFINITE?_ Heretofore Eliphaz had only insinuated, now he plainly asserts Job's guilt, merely on the ground of his sufferings....

  • 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

    At last, Eliphaz accused Job clearly. He said that God was punishing Job for his evil deeds. But Eliphaz was wrong. Job was a good, honest man (Job 1:1)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IS NOT THY WICKEDNESS GREAT? — This was mere conjecture and surmise, arising simply from a false assumption: namely, that a just God can only punish the wicked, and that therefore those must be wicked...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ לֹ֣א רָעָֽתְךָ֣ רַבָּ֑ה וְ אֵֽין ־קֵ֝֗ץ

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Iniquities. He adduces no fresh arguments, but boldly taxes Job with many crimes, which a person in his station might have committed. He rashly concludes that he must have fallen into some of them at...

  • 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

    IS NOT THY WICKEDNESS GREAT?.... It must be owned it is, it cannot be denied. Indeed, the wickedness of every man's heart is great, it being desperately wicked, full of sin, abounding with it; out of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Job 22:5 [Is] not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? Ver. 5. _Is not thy wickedness great?_] Why, no; God of his grace had kept Job innocent of the great transgression, Psalms 19:13...

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

    _Is not thy wickedness great?_ Thy great sins are the true and only cause of thy misery. Or, the verse may be translated, _Is not thy evil_ (thy affliction or punishment) _great, because_, אין קצ, _ei...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Is not thy wickedness great and thine iniquities infinite? Eliphaz here boldly draws the conclusion to which his first statements entitled him, as he thought: Because God sends such afflictions only a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ELIPHAZ CHARGES JOB WITH WICKEDNESS...

  • 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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Seeing that Job has been punished severely this is taken as proof that Job is not simply. sinner, but. sinner with transgressions without numbers. "If your suffering is limitless and God is just, then...

  • 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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:5 wickedness H7451 great H7227 iniquity H5771 end H7093 not thy - Job 4:7-11,...

  • 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 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 22:1 Third Cycle. The consistent pattern of the first two cycles unravels in this last dialogue. Eliphaz describes Job’s life as a constant stream of wicked activity (ch. Job

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:5 Eliphaz assumes that Job’s circumstances reveal significant EVIL in his life. He describes the likely ways that Job has sinned. ⇐

  • 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

    Job 11:14; Job 15:31; Job 15:5; Job 15:6; Job 21:27;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Evil — Is not thy evil, thy affliction, are not thy calamities procured by, and proportionable to thy sins....

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