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Job 22:26-28

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. And Eliphaz’s advice would be good advice if Job were an evil man. But Job was a good man. Job already trusted God.

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See also Job 22:26-28 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 22:26. _FOR THEN SHALT THOU HAVE THY DELIGHT_] Thou shalt know, from thy temporal prosperity, that God favours thee; and for his bounty thou shalt be grateful. How different is this doctrin...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SHALT THOU HAVE THY DELIGHT IN THE ALMIGHTY - Instead of complaining of him as you now do, you would then find calm enjoyment in contemplating his character and his moral government. This is a correct...

  • 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

    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 exhorts Job to reconcile himself with God; assuring him of restoration and great felicity if he will do so. The passage consists of two parts, first, a series of exhortations, each of which i...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _lift up thy face unto God_ i. e. in confidence, and no more ashamed by God's afflictions. Cf. Job 10:15 and Job 11:15....

  • 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

    _FOR THEN SHALT THOU HAVE THY DELIGHT IN THE ALMIGHTY, AND SHALT LIFT UP THY FACE UNTO GOD._ Lift up ... face ... - repeated from Zophar (Job 11:15)....

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN SHALT THOU HAVE THY DELIGHT IN THE ALMIGHTY. — Zophar had told him the same thing, that he should lift up his face _without spot_ (Job 11:15)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּי ־אָ֭ז עַל ־שַׁדַּ֣י תִּתְעַנָּ֑ג וְ תִשׂ

  • 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

    _Face, with confidence of being in favour and accepted. (Calmet)_...

  • 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

    FOR THEN SHALL THOU HAVE THY DELIGHT IN THE ALMIGHTY,.... In the perfections of his nature, in the works of his hands, in his word and worship, in communion with him, and in the relation he stands in...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. Ver. 26. _For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty_] As in thine only portion. Thou shalt enjoy...

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

    _For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty_ Thou shalt find delight, not only or chiefly in these outward comforts, but also and especially in God, whose face shall shine upon thee; and who...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, since in Him is the greatest joy of the righteous, AND SHALT LIFT UP THY FACE UNTO GOD, with the confidence of a favorite son....

  • 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

    FOR; so this verse contains a reason why he might confidently expect all those former outward blessings, because he should have God's favour, which is the spring and foundation of them. Or, _surely_,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:26 delight H6026 (H8691) Almighty H7706 up H5375 (H8799) face H6440 God H433 shalt thou -...

  • 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 3:20; 1 John 3:21; Isaiah 58:14; Job 11:15; Job 27:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Lift up — Look up to him, with chearfulness and confidence....

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