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Verse Job 22:9. _THE ARMS OF THE FATHERLESS_] Whatever _strength_ or
_power_ or property they had, of that thou hast deprived them. Thou
hast been hard-hearted and cruel, and hast enriched thyself wit...
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THOU HAST SENT WIDOWS AWAY EMPTY - That is, without regarding their
needs, and without doing anything to mitigate their sorrows. The
oppression of the widow and the fatherless is, in the Scriptures,
e...
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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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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....
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His treatment of widows he ejected them empty; or when they came
seeking redress, or pleading their rights, he let them go unheard.
Comp. Job's own language as to himself, ch. Job 29:13; Job 31:16.
T...
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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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2. Specific sins charged against Job, and their consequences (Job
22:6-11)
TEXT 22:6-11
6 FOR THOU HAST TAKEN PLEDGES OF THY BROTHER FOR NOUGHT,
And stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 Thou ha...
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_THOU HAST SENT WIDOWS AWAY EMPTY, AND THE ARMS OF THE FATHERLESS HAVE
BEEN BROKEN._
Empty - without their wants being relieved (Genesis 31:42). The
Mosaic law especially protected the widow and fath...
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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.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 22
ELIPHAZ’S LAST SPEECH
G...
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Eliphaz began his list of Job’s evil deeds. Job did not really do
any such things. Eliphaz had no evidence, so he was guessing.
Many people today would say that such deeds are not evil. These people...
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אַ֭לְמָנֹות שִׁלַּ֣חְתָּ רֵיקָ֑ם וּ
זְרֹעֹ֖ות יְתֹמִ֣ים...
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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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Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the (e) fatherless
have been broken.
(e) You have not only not shown pity, but oppressed them....
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_Arms; possessions, condemning orphans unjustly._...
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(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...
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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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THOU HAST SENT WIDOWS AWAY EMPTY,.... Either out of their own houses,
which he spoiled, and devoured, and stripped, and cleared of all that
were in them, as did the Scribes and Pharisees in Christ's t...
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Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have
been broken.
Ver. 9. _Thou hast sent widows away empty_] A widow is a calamitous
name: 2 Samuel 14:5, "I am indeed a widow woman,...
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_Thou hast sent widows_ Whose helpless state called for thy pity;
_away empty_ Either by denying them that relief that their poverty
required, or that right which their cause deserved; or, by spoiling...
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Thou hast sent widows away empty, when they appealed to him for help,
AND THE ARMS OF THE FATHERLESS HAVE BEEN BROKEN, they were treated
with the most inhuman cruelty, deprived of all their rights and...
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ELIPHAZ CHARGES JOB WITH WICKEDNESS...
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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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Here is the claim that Job rejected the widows and crushed the
orphans. This sin is condemned throughout the Old Testament (Exodus
22:22; Deut. Job 27:19; Jeremiah 7:9; Job 22
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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...
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WIDOWS, whose helpless estate called for thy pity, EXODUS 22:22
DEUTERONOMY 24:17,19. AWAY EMPTY; either by denying them that relief
which their poverty required, or that right which their cause
deser...
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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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_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...
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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.
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:9 Eliphaz assumes that Job has mistreated WIDOWS
and THE FATHERLESS. He speaks in terms similar to the warnings in the
law (see Exod
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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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Deuteronomy 27:19; Exodus 22:21; Ezekiel 22:7; Ezekiel 30:22;...
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Arms — Their supports, and rights....