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Verse Job 22:23. _THOU SHALT BE BUILT UP_] God will restore thee to
thy wonted state of prosperity; and thou shalt again have a
_household_, not only of _servants_, but of _children_ also. So much
may...
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IF THOU RETURN TO THE ALMIGHTY - Assuming that he was an impenitent
sinner, and wholly unreconciled to him.
THOU SHALT BE BUILT UP - A figure taken from building up a house, in
contradistinction from...
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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...
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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'...
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RETURN. Septuagint adds "and submit thyself".
TABERNACLES. tents. Some codices, with four early printed editions,
Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "tent"; others, with six early
printed editions...
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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...
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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...
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_built up_ i. e. probably _rebuilt_, or, restored.
_thou shalt put away_ Or, IF THOU PUT AWAY. The words take up "if thou
return" of the first clause....
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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...
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_IF THOU RETURN TO THE ALMIGHTY, THOU SHALT BE BUILT UP, THOU SHALT
PUT AWAY INIQUITY FAR FROM THY TABERNACLES._
Built up - anew, as a restored house.
THOU SHALT PUT AWAY - rather, if thou put away...
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THOU SHALT PUT AWAY] RV 'if thou put away.'...
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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...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
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CHAPTER 22
ELIPHAZ’S LAST SPEECH
G...
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Eliphaz did not accuse Job in order to upset him. Eliphaz wanted to
help his friend. So Eliphaz hoped that Job would confess his evil
deeds to God. Then God would forgive Job. And Job would have a
suc...
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THOU SHALT PUT AWAY INIQUITY. — All this implies the imputation of
apostasy and iniquity to Job....
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אִם ־תָּשׁ֣וּב עַד ־שַׁ֭דַּי
תִּבָּנֶ֑ה תַּרְחִ֥יק...
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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...
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“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....
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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...
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If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt (r) be built up, thou shalt
put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
(r) God will restore to you all your substance....
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(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...
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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...
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IF THOU RETURN TO THE ALMIGHTY,.... Which supposes a departure from
him; and that is by sinning against him, which should be repented of,
confessed, and pardoning grace and mercy be implored, by all t...
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If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put
away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Ver. 23. _If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up_] By
sin men run from G...
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_If thou return to the Almighty_ The Hebrew phrase, תשׁוב עד
שׁדי, _tashub gnad shaddai_, is emphatical, and implies a thorough
turning from sin to God, so as to love him, and cleave to him, and
since...
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If thou return to the Almighty, coming close to Him once more by real
sorrow and penitence, THOU SHALT BE BUILT UP, THOU SHALT PUT AWAY
INIQUITY FAR FROM THY TABERNACLES, for that must ever be the res...
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AN ADMONITION TO REPENT...
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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...
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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,...
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TO THE ALMIGHTY; or, _home to the Almighty_; or, _so as to reach to
the Almighty_, and be joined to him. The Hebrew phrase is
extraordinary, and emphatical, and implies a thorough and effectual
turnin...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Timothy 2:19; Acts 26:20; Colossians 2:7; Hosea 14:1; Hosea 14:2;...
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If — The Hebrew phrase is emphatical, and implies a thorough turning
from sin, to God, so as to love him, and cleave to him, and sincerely
devote a man's self to his fear and service. Built — God will...