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Verse Job 22:7. _THOU HAST NOT GIVEN WATER_] It was esteemed a great
virtue in the East to furnish thirsty travellers with water;
especially in the deserts, where scarcely a _stream_ was to be found,...
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THOU HAST NOT GIVEN WATER TO THE WEARY - That is, thou hast withheld
the rites of hospitality - one of the most grievous offences which
could be charged on an Arabian; compare the notes at Isaiah 21:1...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2. Specific sins charged against Job, and their consequences (Job
22:6-11)
TEXT 22:6-11
6 FOR THOU HAST TAKEN PLEDGES OF THY BROTHER FOR NOUGHT,
And stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 Thou ha...
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_THOU HAST NOT GIVEN WATER TO THE WEARY TO DRINK, AND THOU HAST
WITHHOLDEN BREAD FROM THE HUNGRY._ Hospitality to the weary traveler
is regarded in the East as a primary duty (Isaiah 21:14)....
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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...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
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CHAPTER 22
ELIPHAZ’S LAST SPEECH
G...
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לֹא ־מַ֭יִם עָיֵ֣ף תַּשְׁקֶ֑ה וּ֝ מֵ
רָעֵ֗ב תִּֽמְנַֽע ־לָֽחֶם׃...
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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...
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“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....
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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...
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_Water. Job's disposition was the reverse, chap. xxix. 15. Such
inhumanity would hardly be conceived possible among us. But he
Idumeans were guilty of it; (Numbers xx. 18., and Isaias xxi. 14.) and
if...
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(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...
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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...
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THOU HAST NOT GIVEN WATER TO THE WEARY TO DRINK,.... To a weary
thirsty traveller, to whom in those hot countries cold water was very
refreshing, and which in desert places was not to be had in common...
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Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast
withholden bread from the hungry.
Ver. 7. _Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink_] But hast
slain him with thirst, when thou m...
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ELIPHAZ CHARGES JOB WITH WICKEDNESS...
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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...
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Job is accused of refusing to care for weary travelers or give. meal
to the hungry....
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5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his
accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always
visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and...
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Surely thou hast been so hard-hearted as to deny a cup of cold water
to those that needed and desired it. Water was ofttimes scarce and
precious in those hot countries, and was appropriated to particu...
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Job 22:7 given H4325 weary H5889 water H4325 drink H8248 (H8686)
withheld H4513 (H8799) bread H3899 hungry H7457
not given - Job 31:17; Deuteronomy 15:7-11; Psalms 112:9; Proverbs
11:24-25,...
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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...
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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...
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_Is not thy wickedness great?_
THE CHARGE AGAINST JOB
I. Wrong in relation to man. In regard to the charge which he here
brings against Job, it is worthy of note that whilst most expositors
regard E...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:5 Eliphaz assumes that Job’s circumstances
reveal significant EVIL in his life. He describes the likely ways that
Job has sinned.
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 15:7; Ezekiel 18:16; Ezekiel 18:7; Isaiah 58:10; Isaiah
58:7; Job 31:17; Matthew 25:42; Proverbs 11:24; Proverbs 11:25;...