Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 22:5
Is not thy wickedness great? - Thy sins are not only many, but they are great; and of thy continuance in them there is no end, קץ אין ein kets . read more
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Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 22:6
Thou hast taken a pledge - Thou hast been vexatious in all thy doings, and hast exacted where nothing was due, so that through thee the poor have been unable to procure their necessary clothing. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 22:7
Thou hast not given water - It was esteemed a great virtue in the East to furnish thirsty travelers with water; especially in the deserts, where scarcely a stream was to be found, and where wells were very rare. Some of the Indian devotees are accustomed to stand with a girbah or skin full of water, on the public roads, to give drink to weary travelers who are parched with thirst. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:1-2
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, Can a man be profitable unto God? Job had said nothing upon this point; but perhaps Eliphaz thinks his complaints and expostulations to imply a higher value in man, and a greater claim to consideration at God's hands, than can rightly be challenged. Certainly God does not depend on man for profit or advantage of any kind. Neither our wisdom nor our goodness "extendeth to him." As he that is wise may be profitable unto himself; rather, truly... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:1-4
Eliphaz to Job: the third colloquy: the second controversy: 1 . A fallacious syllogism. I. A SOUND PREMISS . That God's government of mankind is entirely disinterested, his judicial retributions not being affected by considerations of personal benefit or hurt arising from the conduct of his creatures. 1. Not by expectation of advantage. (Verses 2, 3.) Here is: 2 . Not by fear of damage. (Verse 4.) Eliphaz appears to mean that God has as little reason to dread loss from... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:1-30
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 slight importance of Job's case (verse 3). After this weak prelude, however, there is more vigour in his assault. In verses 4-9 he directly charges Job with a number of specified sins, and in verses 10, 11 declares his sufferings to be the consequence of them. He then proceeds to accuse him of denying God's... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:1-30
Censorious and uncharitable reasoning. Eliphaz again takes up the word. He does not contest Job's position, that life presents many examples of the prosperity of the godless, and of the calamities of the godly, but he still maintains that only grievous sins, such as he proceeds to specify — oppression, hard-heartedness, injustice to his neighbours—could be the cause of his misfortunes and miseries (verses 2-10). He then proceeds to give an earnest warning against further indulgence in... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:2
Whether man can be profitable to God. Here is a question to which Eliphaz only expects a negative answer. Let us look at the grounds of the question, its difficulties, and the possible solution of it. I. THE GROUNDS OF THE QUESTION . With many persons such a question never occurs. They do not dream of becoming profitable to God, nor do they wish to be of real service to him. Their only desire is that they may be profitable to them. Even in religion their great idea is to save... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:2-11
The impartiality of the Divine judgment. Eliphaz knows of no tense for suffering but sin. Doubtless sin—transgression of Divine laws—does lie deeply buried in the causes of human suffering. This is the fruitful seed from which widespread harvests of suffering grow. But it is not within the power of man to fix on the actual offender. Suffering occurs in a thousand instances where not the sufferer but another is the offender. To charge home, therefore, upon every sufferer the cause of his... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 22:4
For fear of thee? - Is it because he is afraid that thou wilt do him some injury, that he has stripped thee of thy power and wealth? read more