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Job 22:18

Eliphaz expresses his abhorrence of the ingratitude and evil principles of such men, repeating the words employed by Job, ch. Job 21:16 (far be from me the counsel of the wicked); but while Job referred to the worldly prosperity of such persons, in spite of their ungodliness, Eliphaz lays stress upon their sure destruction, and how the righteous see in their downfall an illustration of God's righteous rule of the world (Job 22:19).

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See also Job 22:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 22:18. _BUT THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED IS FAR FROM ME._] Sarcastically quoting Job's words, Job 21:14; Job 21:16. Job, having in the preceding chapter described the wicked, who said unto the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    YET HE FILLED THEIR HOUSES WITH GOOD THINGS - This is undoubtedly a biting sarcasm. Job had maintained that such people were prosperous. “Yes,” says Eliphaz, “their houses were well filled! They were...

  • 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

    WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HAST THOU MARKED? &C.— As the universal deluge was a most signal and memorable instance of God's displeasure against wickedness and wicked men, Eliphaz takes occasion to enlarge upon it for five or si...

  • 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

    _YET HE FILLED THEIR HOUSES WITH GOOD THINGS: BUT THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED IS FAR FROM ME._ "Yet" you say (Job 21:16, see note) that it is "He who filled their houses with good" - "their" 'good is n...

  • 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

    Eliphaz agreed that God gave good things to these evil people. But they would not serve God, so God punished them. In the second line, Eliphaz repeated Job’s words in Job 21:16. Eliphaz refused to ob...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YET HE FILLED THEIR HOUSES. — The bitterness of his irony now reaches its climax in that he adopts the very formula of repudiation Job had himself used (Job 14:16)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ ה֤וּא מִלֵּ֣א בָתֵּיהֶ֣ם טֹ֑וב וַ עֲצַ֥ת

  • 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

    Yet he (m) filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. (m) He answers to that which Job had said, (Job 21:7) that the wicked have prosperity in this world; d...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _From me. He thus insinuates that Job entertained such sentiments, though he seemed to condemn them, chap. xxi. 16. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "is far from him," God._...

  • 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

    YET HE FILLED THEIR HOUSES WITH GOOD [THINGS],.... With temporal good things, with this world's good, with plenty of providential goodness; earthly enjoyments are good things in themselves, and in the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Ver. 18. _Yet he filled their houses with good things_] Heb. With good; that is, with all precious and ple...

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

    _Yet he filled their houses with good things_ Yet it is true, that for a time God did prosper them, but, at last, cut them off in a tremendous manner. _But the counsel of the wicked_, &c. He repeats J...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WARNING TO AVOID FURTHER PUNISHMENTS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Yet He filled their houses with good things, it was God who had granted to these very scoffers the prosperity which they enjoyed; BUT THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED IS FAR FROM ME! Eliphaz here echoes the...

  • 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

    Eliphaz argues that the prosperity of the wicked, that God caused, was only. prelude to disaster, like fattening up animals before the slaughter. JOB 22:18 "BUT THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED IS FAR FROM M...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-20 Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, that we may not walk therein. But if others are consume...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Yet it is true that for a time God did prosper them, as he did thee; which also was the aggravation of their sin, and that which hastened their ruin: but at last, and in due time, God cut them off in...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:18 filled H4390 (H8765) houses H1004 good H2896 counsel H6098 wicked H7563 far H7368 (H8804) he fi

  • 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

    _Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?_ THE WAY OF THE WICKED DESCRIBED It is commonly remarked, how little advantage mankind make of each other’s experience. This is surely a s...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:16 Within these verses, Eliphaz essentially quotes Job’s words from Job 21:14. However, while Job was arguing that the wicked prosper in spite of their rebellion against God, Elipha...

  • 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

    1 Samuel 2:7; Acts 14:17; Acts 15:16; Jeremiah 12:2; Job 12:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Yet — Yet it is true, that for a time God did prosper them, but at last, cut them off in a tremendous manner, But — He repeals Job's words, Job 21:16, not without reflection: thou didst say so, but ag...

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