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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Job 22:16

Which were (l) cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

(l) He proves God's providence by the punishment of the wicked, whom he takes away before they can bring their wicked purposes to pass.

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See also Job 22:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 22:16. _WHOSE FOUNDATION WAS OVERFLOWN WITH A FLOOD_] The unrighteous in the days of Noah, who appear to have had an abundance of all temporal good, (Job 22:18,) and who surpassed the deeds...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHICH WERE CUT DOWN - Who were suddenly destroyed by a flood. On the word used here (קמט _qâmaṭ_) see the notes at Job 16:8. It occurs only in that place and this. Its primary notion is that of draw...

  • 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

    _out of time_ i. e. before their time, prematurely, by the judgment of God for their sin. Comp. Job 15:32. _whose foundation was overthrown_ lit. _whose foundation was poured away_and became _a flood...

  • 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, 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...

  • 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

    _WHICH WERE CUT DOWN OUT OF TIME, WHOSE FOUNDATION WAS OVERFLOWN WITH A FLOOD:_ Cut down - rather, 'fettered,' as in Job 16:8; Job 1:1:e., arrested by death. OUT OF TIME - prematurely, suddenly (Job...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    22:16 off (d-4) Or 'huddled away,' as by the rising flood. with (e-12) Or 'has flowed away like.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    OUT OF TIME] RV 'before their time.'...

  • 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

    Perhaps this refers to Noah’s flood (Genesis Chapter s 6-8). God destroyed the ancient world by a flood, because its people were very evil....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHICH WERE CUT DOWN OUT OF TIME. — Or, _which were snatched away before their time._ It is generally supposed that there is an allusion here to the history of the Flood; if so, the reference is of cou...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֲשֶֽׁר ־קֻמְּט֥וּ וְ לֹא ־עֵ֑ת נָ֝הָ֗ר יוּצַ

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Flood. Hebrew, "river," (Septuagint; Calmet) or "flood." (Protestants) This does not certainly allude to the deluge, though Job could not be unacquainted with an event (Haydock) which appears in the...

  • 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

    WHICH WERE CUT DOWN OUT OF TIME,.... Sent out of time into eternity, time being no more with men, and they no longer in time, when death seizes upon them; or "before time" a, before the common term of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: Ver. 16. _Which were cut down out of time_] Or, Which grew full of wrinkles (as those that have long lain in the water ar...

  • 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

    Which were cut down out of time, being swept away by a calamity before they had reached the normal span of life, WHOSE FOUNDATION WAS OVERFLOWN WITH A FLOOD, the place where they and their dwellings s...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WHOSE FOUNDATION WAS OVERFLOWEN: _ Heb._ a flood was poured upon their foundation...

  • 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

    OUT OF TIME, i.e. before their time; who died a violent and untimely death. WHOSE FOUNDATION WAS OVERFLOWN WITH A FLOOD; who, together with their foundation, to wit, the earth, and all their supports...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:16 down H7059 (H8795) time H6256 foundations H3247 away H3332 (H8714) flood H5104 cut down -...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:16 Within these verses, Eliphaz essentially quotes Job’s words from Job 21:14. However, while Job was arguing that the wicked prosper in spite of their rebellion against God, Elipha...

  • 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 3:19; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5; Ecclesiastes 7:17; Genesis 7:

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Out of — Before their time. A flood — Who, together with their foundation, the earth and all their supports and enjoyments in it, were destroyed by the general deluge....

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