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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 22:23

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 (and one in margin), read "tents" (plural)

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See also Job 22:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    _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....

  • 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

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THOU SHALT PUT AWAY] RV 'if thou put away.'...

  • 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

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT PUT AWAY INIQUITY. — All this implies the imputation of apostasy and iniquity to Job....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִם ־תָּשׁ֣וּב עַד ־שַׁ֭דַּי תִּבָּנֶ֑ה תַּרְחִ֥יק...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • 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

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:23 return H7725 (H8799) Almighty H7706 up H1129 (H8735) remove H7368 iniquity H5766 far H7368 ...

  • 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

    _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

    2 Timothy 2:19; Acts 26:20; Colossians 2:7; Hosea 14:1; Hosea 14:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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