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Verse Job 22:18. _BUT THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED IS FAR FROM ME._]
Sarcastically quoting Job's words, Job 21:14; Job 21:16. Job, having
in the preceding chapter described the wicked, who said unto the...
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YET HE FILLED THEIR HOUSES WITH GOOD THINGS - This is undoubtedly a
biting sarcasm. Job had maintained that such people were prosperous.
“Yes,” says Eliphaz, “their houses were well filled! They were...
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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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WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44....
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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...
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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 expresses his abhorrence of the ingratitude and evil
principles of such men, repeating the words employed by Job, ch. Job
21:16 (far be from me the counsel of the wicked); but while Job
referr...
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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...
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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...
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_YET HE FILLED THEIR HOUSES WITH GOOD THINGS: BUT THE COUNSEL OF THE
WICKED IS FAR FROM ME._
"Yet" you say (Job 21:16, see note) that it is "He who filled their
houses with good" - "their" 'good is n...
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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 agreed that God gave good things to these evil people. But
they would not serve God, so God punished them.
In the second line, Eliphaz repeated Job’s words in Job 21:16.
Eliphaz refused to ob...
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YET HE FILLED THEIR HOUSES. — The bitterness of his irony now
reaches its climax in that he adopts the very formula of repudiation
Job had himself used (Job 14:16)....
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וְ ה֤וּא מִלֵּ֣א בָתֵּיהֶ֣ם טֹ֑וב וַ
עֲצַ֥ת
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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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Yet he (m) filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of
the wicked is far from me.
(m) He answers to that which Job had said, (Job 21:7) that the wicked
have prosperity in this world; d...
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_From me. He thus insinuates that Job entertained such sentiments,
though he seemed to condemn them, chap. xxi. 16. (Calmet) ---
Septuagint, "is far from him," God._...
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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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YET HE FILLED THEIR HOUSES WITH GOOD [THINGS],.... With temporal good
things, with this world's good, with plenty of providential goodness;
earthly enjoyments are good things in themselves, and in the...
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Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the
wicked is far from me.
Ver. 18. _Yet he filled their houses with good things_] Heb. With
good; that is, with all precious and ple...
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Yet He filled their houses with good things, it was God who had
granted to these very scoffers the prosperity which they enjoyed; BUT
THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED IS FAR FROM ME! Eliphaz here echoes the...
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WARNING TO AVOID FURTHER PUNISHMENTS...
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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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Eliphaz argues that the prosperity of the wicked, that God caused, was
only. prelude to disaster, like fattening up animals before the
slaughter. JOB 22:18 "BUT THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED IS FAR FROM M...
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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...
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Yet it is true that for a time God did prosper them, as he did thee;
which also was the aggravation of their sin, and that which hastened
their ruin: but at last, and in due time, God cut them off in...
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Job 22:18 filled H4390 (H8765) houses H1004 good H2896 counsel H6098
wicked H7563 far H7368 (H8804)
he fi
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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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_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...
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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...
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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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1 Samuel 2:7; Acts 14:17; Acts 15:16; Jeremiah 12:2; Job 12:6;...
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Yet — Yet it is true, that for a time God did prosper them, but at
last, cut them off in a tremendous manner, But — He repeals Job's
words, Job 21:16, not without reflection: thou didst say so, but
ag...