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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 22:15

Verse Job 22:15. Hast thou marked the old way] This is supposed to be another accusation; as i! he had said, "Thou hollowest the same way that the wicked of old have walked in." Here is an evident allusion to the FLOOD, as is particularly noted in the next verse.

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See also Job 22:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HAST THOU MARKED THE OLD WAY WHICH WICKED MEN HAVE TRODDEN? - Hast thou seen what has happened in former times to wicked people? Job had maintained that God did not deal with people in this world acco...

  • 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

    It was under a similar feeling in regard to God that the great sinners before the Flood filled the earth with violence, and Eliphaz asks Job whether he will go the length of accepting the principles a...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HAST THOU MARKED THE OLD WAY WHICH WICKED MEN HAVE TRODDEN?_ Marked - rather, Dost thou keep to? i:e., wish to follow (so Hebrew, 2 Samuel 22:22). If so, beware of sharing their end. THE OLD WAY -...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    22:15 mark (b-3) Some read 'Dost thou follow.' wicked (c-8) Or 'vain.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HAST THOU MARKED] RV 'wilt thou keep.'...

  • 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

    The three friends told Job to learn from ancient advice (Job 8:8-9; Job 15:10; Job 20:4). But Eliphaz knew that some ancient advice is wrong....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HAST THOU MARKED THE OLD WAY...? — Rather, _Dost thou keep the old way which the wicked men trod? Dost thou hold their tenets? _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ אֹ֣רַח עֹולָ֣ם תִּשְׁמֹ֑ר אֲשֶׁ֖ר דָּרְכ֣וּ...

  • 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

    Hast thou marked the old way (k) which wicked men have trodden? (k) How God has punished them from the beginning?...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Wicked. Alexandrian Septuagint, "just." But Grabe substitutes unjust; (Haydock) as otherwise, Eliphaz would argue against his own principles: unless just be put ironically for hypocrites. (Calmet) --...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • 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

    HAST THOU MARKED THE OLD WAY WHICH WICKED MEN HAVE TRODDEN?] The evil way that wicked men have walked in ever since man apostatized from God, the way of Cain and his descendants, who were of the wicke...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Ver. 15. _Hast thou, marked the old way_] Heb. The way of old. Broughton rendereth it, the way of the old world; of those ungodly ones befo...

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

    _Hast thou marked the old way?_ Hebrew, ארח עולם, _orach gnolam, the way of antiquity_, that is, of men living in ancient times, or former ages. And, by their _way_, he either means their course, and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Did Job intend to observe and follow the way of the wicked children of the world?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WARNING TO AVOID FURTHER PUNISHMENTS...

  • 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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Some believe that this is. reference to the flood during Noah's time. "The foundations of their existence collapsed from beneath them, swept away as by. flood (Matthew 7:26). They were snatched away w...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Heb. _the way of antiquity_, i.e. of men living in ancient times, or former ages. By this way is here meant, either, 1. Their course or common practice; or, 2. Their end or success; as the WAY is tak...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:15 keep H8104 (H8799) old H5769 way H734 wicked H205 men H4962 trod H1869 (H8804) the old way -...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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

    Genesis 6:11; Genesis 6:5; Luke 17:26; Luke 17:27...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Old way — Heb. the way of antiquity, of men living in ancient times, their end or success....

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