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Job 22:27

pay thy vows In making requests in prayer it was customary to make a vow to sacrifice or offer unto the Lord if the prayer was granted. Job shall have cause to fulfil his vows, his prayers being heard.

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See also Job 22:27 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 22:27. _THOU SHALT MAKE THY PRAYER UNTO HIM_] תעתיר _tatir, thou_ _shalt open_ or _unbosom thyself_. And when the _heart_ prays, God hears; and the person, being blessed, vows fidelity, pray...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU SHALT MAKE THY PRAYER UNTO HIM - God would then hear him, for he would be righteous. This was one of the blessings which would follow reconciliation. It is, in fact, one of the blessings of a ret...

  • 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'...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. Repent, and restoration will be certain. (Job 22:21-30) TEXT 22:21-30 21 ACQUAINT NOW THYSELF WITH HIM, AND BE AT PEACE: Thereby good shall come onto thee. 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THOU SHALT MAKE THY PRAYER UNTO HIM, AND HE SHALL HEAR THEE, AND THOU SHALT PAY THY VOWS._ (Isaiah 58:9; Isaiah 58:14.) PAY THY VOWS - which thou hast promised to God in the event of thy prayers b...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THOU SHALT PAY THY VOWS] Job should carry out the promises made to God in times of distress: cp. Psalms 50:14...

  • 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

    Job wished that God did not watch him (Job 7:19). But Job hoped for the day when he could speak with God (Job 14:15). Eliphaz promised a good life to Job, if only Job would confess his evil deeds. An...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    תַּעְתִּ֣יר אֵ֭לָיו וְ יִשְׁמָעֶ֑ךָּ וּ נְדָרֶ֥יךָ...

  • 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

    _Vows, after obtaining thy requests. (Menochius) --- Et positis aris jam vota in littore solves. (Virgil, \'c6neid iii.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (23) If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. (24) Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the...

  • 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

    THOU SHALT MAKE THY PRAYER UNTO HIM,.... To God, and him only; for not a creature, angels, or men, are to be prayed to; and this is to be done in a supplicating, entreating way, as the word signifies;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. Ver. 27. _Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee_] Yea, though thou multiply prayers, _M...

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

    _Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him_ Hebrew, תעתיר אליו, _tagnter eelaiv_, thou shalt pray earnestly and importunately, or, _thou shalt multiply thy prayer._ Under all thy burdens, in all thy wants,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou shalt make thy prayer unto Him, with a firm trust in God's willingness to hear, AND HE SHALL HEAR THEE, AND THOU SHALT PAY THY VOWS, fulfilling the pledges which he had made in the event of his p...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AN ADMONITION TO REPENT...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    21-30 The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had hitherto not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. The counsel Eliphaz here gives is good, though,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HEAR THEE, i.e. answer thy prayers, and not disregard them, and hide himself from thee, as now he doth. THOU SHALT PAY THY VOWS, i.e. thou shalt obtain those blessings for which thou didst make vows t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:27 prayer H6279 (H8686) hear H8085 (H8799) pay H7999 (H8762) vows H5088 make thy -...

  • 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

    _For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty._ AN OUTLINE OF THE DEVOUT LIFE These words can be raised to a higher level than that on which Eliphaz placed them, and regarded as describing t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If thou return to the Almighty._ SPIRITUAL REFORMATION I. The nature of a true spiritual reformation is here set forth. 1. Reconciliation to God. Men in their unregenerate state are out of sympath...

  • 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 John 5:14; 1 John 5:15; Ecclesiastes 5:4; Isaiah 58:9; Jonah 2:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Make — The word is, thou shalt multiply thy prayer. Under all thy burdens, in all thy wants, cares and fears, thou shalt send to heaven for wisdom, strength and comfort. Pay — Thou shalt obtain those...

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