Job 22:1-11

Eliphaz

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him?
3 What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless?
4 “Is it for your piety that he rebukes you and brings charges against you?
5 Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
6 You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.
7 You gave no water to the weary and you withheld food from the hungry,
8 though you were a powerful man, owning land— an honored man, living on it.
9 And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.
10 That is why snares are all around you, why sudden peril terrifies you,
11 why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

Cross References 25

  • 1. S Job 4:1
  • 2. Luke 17:10
  • 3. S Job 7:17
  • 4. Isaiah 1:11; Haggai 1:8
  • 5. Psalms 143:2
  • 6. Job 35:7; Proverbs 9:12
  • 7. S Job 9:3; Job 14:3; Job 19:29; Psalms 143:2; Isaiah 3:14; Ezekiel 20:35
  • 8. S Ezra 9:13; S Job 15:5">Job Job 15:5; Job 11:6; Job 15:5
  • 9. S Job 15:13; S Job 20:29; Job 29:17
  • 10. S Exodus 22:26; Deuteronomy 24:6,17; Ezekiel 18:12,16
  • 11. S 2 Kings 4:1
  • 12. S Exodus 22:27; Deuteronomy 24:12-13
  • 13. Matthew 10:42
  • 14. ver 9; Job 29:12; Job 31:17,21,31; Isaiah 58:7,10; Ezekiel 18:7; Matthew 25:42
  • 15. S Job 15:19
  • 16. Isaiah 3:3; Isaiah 5:13; Isaiah 9:15
  • 17. S Job 12:19
  • 18. Job 29:13; Job 31:16; Psalms 146:9
  • 19. Job 24:3,21; Isaiah 10:2; Luke 1:53
  • 20. S ver 7; S Job 6:27; S Isaiah 1:17
  • 21. S Job 18:9
  • 22. S Job 10:3
  • 23. S Job 15:21
  • 24. S Job 5:14
  • 25. S Genesis 7:23; Job 36:28; Job 38:34,37; Psalms 69:1-2; Psalms 124:4-5; Isaiah 58:10-11; Lamentations 3:54
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