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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 22:2

As he that is wise. — It is probably an independent statement: “Surely he that is wise is profitable, &c.”

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See also Job 22:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 22:2. _CAN A MAN BE PROFITABLE UNTO GOD_] God does not afflict thee because thou hast deprived him of any excellency. A man may be profitable to a man, but no man can profit his Maker. He ha...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    CAN A MAN BE PROFITABLE UNTO GOD? - Can a man confer any favor on God, so as to lay him under obligation? Eliphaz supposes that Job sets up a “claim” to the favor of God, because he was of service to...

  • 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

    CAN... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. MAN. a strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14. GOD. Hebrew El. AS. nay. The Hebrew accent _(Tebir)_ on _ki,_ "as", is disjunctive, and means "nay". See not...

  • 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

    This verse reads, Can a man be profitable unto God? Nay, he that is wise is profitable unto himself. A man's actions cannot affect God; the advantage of wisdom, that is, prudent and right conduct,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    God's treatment of men cannot be due to any respect which He has to Himself, for He is too lofty to be affected by anything human. He deals with men according to their ways, and Job's afflictions can...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. FALLACIES, FOLLIES, AND LOGOTHERAPYTHIRD TIME'S A CHARM (Job 22:1, Job 26:14) A. ELIPHAZ ON THE FUNCTIONAL VALUE OF MAN (Job 22:1-30) 1. God, needing nothing, is not self-seeking in punishing...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _CAN A MAN BE PROFITABLE UNTO GOD, AS HE THAT IS WISE MAY BE PROFITABLE UNTO HIMSELF?_ As he that is wise - rather, yea, the (truly) wise (pious) man profiteth himself. So "understanding" or "wise" -...

  • 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

    In Job 21:14-15, Job spoke about the attitudes of wicked people. Such people will not serve God because there is no benefit for them. But Job would not behave like them. Even when Job lost all his po...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ לְ אֵ֥ל יִסְכָּן ־גָּ֑בֶר כִּֽי ־יִסְכֹּ֖ן

  • 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

    Can a man be (a) profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? (a) Though man was just, yet God could not profit from this his justice; and therefore when he punished him, h...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Knowledge. How then canst thou dispute with God?_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, (2) Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? (3) Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art right...

  • 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

    CAN A MAN BE PROFITABLE UNTO GOD?.... Eliphaz imagined that Job thought so, by his insisting so much on his integrity, and complaining of his afflictions; and that God was beholden to him for his holi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? Ver. 2. _Can a man be profitable unto God_] No, neither doth Job say he can, but the contrary, Job 21:22. Howbeit...

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

    _Can a man be profitable unto God_ That is, add any thing to his perfection or felicity? namely, by his righteousness, as the next verse shows. Why then dost thou insist so much upon thy own righteous...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Can a man be profitable unto God, no matter how good or how great he may be in this world, AS HE THAT IS WISE MAY BE PROFITABLE UNTO HIMSELF? This is really the answer to the first part of the verse:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ELIPHAZ CHARGES JOB WITH WICKEDNESS...

  • 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)

    HE THAT IS WISE MAY BE PROFITABLE UNTO HIMSELF: Or, if he may be profitable, doth his good success depend thereon?...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "CAN. VIGOROUS MAN BE OF USE TO GOD": "In his previous discourse, Job argued that God's punishments are indiscriminate, that is, they come upon the wicked and righteous alike (Job 21:23-26). Eliphaz n...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 Eliphaz considers that, because Job complained so much of his afflictions, he thought God was unjust in afflicting him; but Job was far from thinking so. What Eliphaz says, is unjustly applied to...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BE PROFITABLE UNTO GOD, i.e. add any thing to his perfection or felicity, to wit, by his righteousness, as the next verse shows. Why then dost thou insist so much upon thy own righteousness, as if tho...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:2 man H1397 profitable H5532 (H8799) God H410 Though H3588 wise H7919 (H8688) profitable H5532 ...

  • 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

    _Can a man be profitable unto God?_ THE THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ Two general truths. I. That the great God is perfectly independent of man’s character, whether right or wrong. “Can a man be profitab...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:1 Third Cycle. The consistent pattern of the first two cycles unravels in this last dialogue. Eliphaz describes Job’s life as a constant stream of wicked activity (ch. Job

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:2 Eliphaz argues that there could be no purpose for suffering other than to indicate judgment and a need to repent (v. Job 22:4)....

  • 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

    Deuteronomy 10:13; Ecclesiastes 7:11; Ecclesiastes 7:12; Galatians 6:7;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Can, &c. — Why dost thou insist so much upon thy own righteousness, as if thou didst oblige God by it....

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