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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Job 22:17

Which said unto God, Depart from us He repeats Job's words, Job 21:14; but to a contrary purpose. Job alleged them to show that some men prospered, notwithstanding their professed wickedness, and Eliphaz produces them to show that they were cut off for it. And, What can the Almighty do for them? Thus did that wicked generation, whom Noah had in vain called to repentance, as it were, defy God, contemning both his threatenings and his promises.

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See also Job 22:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHICH SAID UNTO GOD, DEPART FROM US - Notes, Job 21:14. A very correct description of the old world. They had no wish to retain God in their knowledge. Probably Eliphaz here refers to what Job had sai...

  • 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, having in Job 22:6 suggested what Job's offences must have been, now suggests under what feeling in regard to God he must have committed them. He thought God so far removed from the world tha...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _do for them_ Rather, do UNTO them....

  • 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

    _WHICH SAID UNTO GOD, DEPART FROM US: AND WHAT CAN THE ALMIGHTY DO FOR THEM?_ Eliphaz designedly uses Job's own words (Job 21:14), to show that the wicked, who so put away God from them, are not pros...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DO FOR THEM] RM 'do to us.' This and Job 22:18 are largely a repetition of parts of Job 21:14, and are regarded by some scholars as an insertion....

  • 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

    Perhaps this refers to Noah’s flood (Genesis Chapter s 6-8). God destroyed the ancient world by a flood, because its people were very evil....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHICH SAID UNTO GOD, DEPART FROM US. — Here again he attributes to Job the very thoughts he had ascribed to the wicked (Job 20:14)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הָ אֹמְרִ֣ים לָ֭ † אֵל ס֣וּר מִמֶּ֑נּוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • 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...

  • 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

    WHICH SAID UNTO GOD, DEPART FROM US,.... Choosing not to be admonished of their sins, nor be exhorted to repentance for them, nor be instructed by him in the way of their duty, nor to attend the worsh...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? Ver. 17. _Which said unto God, Depart from us_] Atheists those antediluvians were; if not dogmatic, yet practical, such as...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    which said unto God, Depart from us! and what could the Almighty do for them? Both speeches are attributed to the ungodly, with whom Eliphaz here classes Job, in allusion to 21:14. 15....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WARNING TO AVOID FURTHER PUNISHMENTS...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOR THEM?: Or, to them...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "WHAT CAN THE ALMIGHTY DO TO THEM?" Compare with Job 21:14-16. Here is. sample of the words that unbelievers in the past have said (Jude 1:15)....

  • 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

    He reports Job's words, JOB 21:14,15, (where they are explained,) but to a contrary purpose. Job alleged them to show that they prospered notwithstanding their professed wickedness, and Eliphaz produc...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:17 said H559 (H8802) God H410 Depart H5493 (H8798) Almighty H7706 do H6466 (H8799) Depart -...

  • 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

    Isaiah 30:11; Job 21:10; Job 21:14; Job 21:15; Malachi 3:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Who — He repeats Job's words, Job 21:14, but to a contrary purpose. Job alleged them to shew that they prospered notwithstanding their wickedness; and Eliphaz produces them to shew that they were cut...

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