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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 22:29

RM 'When they are made low,' i.e. Job's ways. If he should decline in prosperity he will assert with confidence that his ways will soon take an upward turn.

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See also Job 22:29 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 22:29. _WHEN_ MEN _ARE CAST DOWN_] There is a great difficulty in this verse; the sense, however, is tolerably evident, and the following is nearly a literal version: _When they shall humbl...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHEN MEN ARE CAST DOWN - The meaning of this is, probably, when people are usually cast down, or in the times of trial and calamity, which prostrate others, you shall find support. You shall then be e...

  • 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'...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE HUMBLE. Hebrew the man of downcast eyes. Compare Luke 18:13....

  • 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

    _When men are cast down_ The words must mean either: _when they_(i. e. thy ways, Job 22:28) _go downwards_, when decline or misfortune befalls thee; or, _when men cast thee down_. _there is lifting u...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHEN MEN ARE CAST DOWN, &C.— _For whoever humbleth himself shall be extolled and had in glory; he that hath lowly eyes shall be exalted:_ Job 22:30. _Whoever is innocent shall be safe, and delivered b...

  • 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

    _WHEN MEN ARE CAST DOWN, THEN THOU SHALT SAY, THERE IS LIFTING UP; AND HE SHALL SAVE THE HUMBLE PERSON._ Rather, When thy ways (from Job 22:28) are cast down (for a time), thou shalt (soon again have...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    22:29 he (g-13) i.e. God. they (h-2) i.e. his ways. eyes. (i-21) Or 'looks.'...

  • 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’s words were sincere. But they had a meaning that Eliphaz did not expect. Job was already a good man (Job 1:8). And Job’s prayers mattered to God (Job 40:1-5), although Job did not yet realise...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THERE IS LIFTING UP. — This may be its meaning, but some understand it in a bad sense: “When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, It was pride that caused their fall.”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־הִ֭שְׁפִּילוּ וַ תֹּ֣אמֶר גֵּוָ֑ה וְ ש

  • 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

    (u) When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. (u) God will deliver his when the wicked are destroyed round about them, as in the flood...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Glory, as the gospel declares, Matthew xxiii. 12. The Hebrew is more perplexed. "When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, there is lifting up;" (Protestants; Haydock) or "when thy eyes shall be c...

  • 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

    WHEN [MEN] ARE CAST DOWN,.... Wicked men are brought down from a state of prosperity to a state of adversity, are in low circumstances, great straits and difficulties: THEN THOU SHALL SAY, [THERE IS]...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. Ver. 29. _When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up_] And that by the...

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

    _It shall be established_ Thy purposes shall not be disappointed, but ratified by God. And in all thy counsels and actions God shall give thee the light of his direction and governance, and of comfort...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    When men are cast down, or "when his ways led downwards," into trouble of any kind, THEN THOU SHALT SAY, THERE IS LIFTING UP, that is, Upward, arise! a call of encouragement; AND HE SHALL SAVE THE HUM...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HUMBLE PERSON: _ Heb._ him that hath low eyes...

  • 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

    WHEN MEN ARE CAST DOWN, Heb. _When they_ (i.e. they who do this work. It is an indefinite and impersonal speech, which is very common in the Hebrew language) _shall cast down_ or _overthrow_; either,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:29 down H8213 (H8689) say H559 (H8799) Exaltation H1466 save H3467 (H8686) humble H7807 person...

  • 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

    _When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and He shall save the humble person._ THE HUMBLE SOUL THE PECULIAR FAVOURITE OF HEAVEN I. Some account of lowliness and humility. L...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty._ AN OUTLINE OF THE DEVOUT LIFE These words can be raised to a higher level than that on which Eliphaz placed them, and regarded as describing t...

  • 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

    1 Peter 5:5; Ezekiel 21:26; Ezekiel 21:27; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 66:2;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Cast down — All round about thee, in a time of general calamity. There is — God will deliver thee. He — God....

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