Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 22:2
2. as he that is wise—rather, yea the pious man profiteth himself. So "understanding" or "wise"—pious (Daniel 12:3; Daniel 12:10; Psalms 14:2) [MICHAELIS]. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 22:3
3. pleasure—accession of happiness; God has pleasure in man's righteousness ( :-), but He is not dependent on man's character for His happiness. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 22:4
4. Is the punishment inflicted on thee from fear of thee, in order to disarm thee? as Job had implied (see on Job 7:12; Job 7:12- :; and Job 22:1). will he enter . . . into judgment?—Job had desired this (Job 13:3; Job 13:21). He ought rather to have spoken as in Psalms 143:2. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 22:5
5. Heretofore Eliphaz had only insinuated, now he plainly asserts Job's guilt, merely on the ground of his sufferings. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 22:6
6. The crimes alleged, on a harsh inference, by Eliphaz against Job are such as he would think likely to be committed by a rich man. The Mosaic law (Exodus 22:26; Deuteronomy 24:10) subsequently embodied the feeling that existed among the godly in Job's time against oppression of debtors as to their pledges. Here the case is not quite the same; Job is charged with taking a pledge where he had no just claim to it; and in the second clause, that pledge (the outer garment which served the poor as... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 22:7
7. Hospitality to the weary traveller is regarded in the East as a primary duty ( :-). read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 22:8
8. mighty—Hebrew, "man of arm" (Psalms 10:15; namely, Job). honourable—Hebrew, "eminent, or, accepted for countenance" (Isaiah 3:3; 2 Kings 5:1); that is, possessing authority. Eliphaz repeats his charge (2 Kings 5:1- :; so Zophar, Job 20:19), that it was by violence Job wrung houses and lands from the poor, to whom now he refused relief (Job 22:7; Job 22:9) [MICHAELIS]. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 22:9
9. empty—without their wants being relieved (Genesis 31:42). The Mosaic law especially protected the widow and fatherless (Genesis 31:42- :); the violation of it in their case by the great is a complaint of the prophets (Genesis 31:42- :). arms—supports, helps, on which one leans (Hosea 7:15). Thou hast robbed them of their only stay. Job replies in Hosea 7:15- :. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 22:10
10. snares—alluding to Job's admission (Job 19:6; compare Job 18:10; Proverbs 22:5). read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 22:1
1. Eliphaz shows that man's goodness does not add to, or man's badness take from, the happiness of God; therefore it cannot be that God sends prosperity to some and calamities on others for His own advantage; the cause of the goods and ills sent must lie in the men themselves (Psalms 16:2; Luke 17:10; Acts 17:25; 1 Chronicles 29:14). So Job's calamities must arise from guilt. Eliphaz, instead of meeting the facts, tries to show that it could not be so. read more