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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 22:30

He shall deliver the island of the innocent is undoubtedly an error for He shall deliver him that is not innocent: that is, either God shall deliver, or the humble person, if that is the subject of the former clause; the humble-minded man would have saved them. “He would have delivered him that is not innocent; yea, even so shall he be delivered by the cleanness of thy hands,” as the ten righteous would have saved Sodom. It is remarkable that this, which is the last word of Eliphaz, has in it the significance of a prophecy, for it is exactly thus that the history of Job closes; and Eliphaz himself exemplified his own promise in being indebted to Job for the act of intercession by which he was pardoned, together with his friends; Job 42:8.


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See also Job 22:30 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 22:30. _HE SHALL DELIVER THE ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT_] The word אי _ai_, which we translate _island_, is most probably the Arabic particle [Arabic] _whosoever, whatsoever, any, whosoever he...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE SHALL DELIVER THE ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT - Margin, “the innocent shall deliver the island.” Never was there a more unhappy translation than this; and it is quite clear that our translators had no i...

  • 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 ISLAND OF. Island put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for coasts, or borders; but the words are omitted by the Septuagint IT. The Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate rea...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the island of the innocent_ Rather, HIM THAT IS NOT INNOCENT. Even others who are blameworthy shall be saved through Job's intercession, because of the cleanness of his hands, for the effectual ferve...

  • 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

    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

    _HE SHALL DELIVER THE ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT: AND IT IS DELIVERED BY THE PURENESS OF THINE HANDS._ Island - i:e., dwelling. But the Hebrew [cut down from _ 'EEYN_ (H369)] expresses the negative (1 Sa...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    22:30 he (g-8) i.e. God....

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Render, 'He (God) shall even deliver him that is not innocent, (through Job's intercession). 'Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands' (i.e. on account of Job's piety). This actu...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְֽמַלֵּ֥ט אִֽי ־נָקִ֑י וְ֝ נִמְלַ֗ט בְּ בֹ֣ר

  • 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

    He shall deliver the (x) island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. (x) God will deliver a whole country from peril, even for the just man's sake....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Innocent. Hebrew, "He shall deliver even the man who is not innocent, and that for the sake of the purity of thy hands." (Chaldean; Junius, &c.) --- God will even spare the guilty, to manifest the reg...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER the view here presented to you of Job's exercises, is the more profitable from being the more plain. In all the charges of the friends of Job before, there were none so palpably fal...

  • 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

    HE SHALL DELIVER THE ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT,.... But where is there such an island, an island of innocent persons? it seems to be better rendered by others, "the innocent shall deliver the island" s:...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. Ver. 30. _He shall deliver the island of the innocent_] Or, He shall deliver the not innocent; him tha...

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

    _He_ Whose prerogative it is to give deliverances; _shall deliver _ Namely, upon thy request, as the following clause shows; _the island of the innocent_ Not only thyself, when thou shalt become innoc...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He shall deliver the island of the innocent, rather, "God will rescue him that is not guiltless"; AND IT IS DELIVERED BY THE PURENESS OF THINE HANDS, God, on account of His high regard for Job, would...

  • 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)

    HE SHALL DELIVER THE ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT: Or, the innocent shall deliver the Island...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "AND HE WILL BE DELIVERED THROUGH THE CLEANNESS OF YOUR HANDS": The idea is that the righteous man has influence with God, and through his prayers others will be delivered (see Genesis 18:21-33). Yet...

  • 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

    HE, i.e. God, as JOB 22:29, whose prerogative it is to give deliverances. SHALL DELIVER, to wit, upon thy request, as the following clause showeth: God will hear thy prayers even for others, which is...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:30 deliver H4422 (H8762) who H336 innocent H5355 delivered H4422 (H8738) purity H1252 hands H3709 He

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ISLAND That is, coast....

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:30 Eliphaz suggests that, if Job would repent of his supposed sin, he would be able to intercede even for ONE WHO IS NOT INNOCENT. Eliphaz does not realize that he himself stands in...

  • 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 Timothy 2:8; Acts 19:15; Acts 19:16; Acts 27:24; Genesis 18:26;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He, &c. — God will have so great a respect to thy innocency, that for thy sake he will deliver those that belong to thee, or live with thee, or near thee, thought in themselves they be ripe for destru...

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