Job 22

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.
12 “Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars!
13 Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?
14 Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.’
15 Will you keep to the old path that the wicked have trod?
16 They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.
17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?’
18 Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.
19 The righteous see their ruin and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying,
20 ‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.’
21 “Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.
22 Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored: If you remove wickedness far from your tent
24 and assign your nuggets to the dust, your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,
25 then the Almighty will be your gold, the choicest silver for you.
26 Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty and will lift up your face to God.
27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
28 What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways.
29 When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast.
30 He will deliver even one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

Cross References 71

  • 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
  • 26. S Job 11:8; S Job 16:19
  • 27. ver 14; Psalms 10:11; Psalms 59:7; Psalms 64:5; Psalms 73:11; Psalms 94:7; Isaiah 29:15; Ezekiel 9:9; Zephaniah 1:12
  • 28. Psalms 139:11; Ezekiel 8:12; Ephesians 6:12
  • 29. Job 26:9; Psalms 97:2; Psalms 105:39
  • 30. S ver 13; S 2 Kings 21:16
  • 31. Job 37:18; Psalms 18:11; Proverbs 8:27; Isaiah 40:22; Jeremiah 23:23-24
  • 32. Job 23:10; Job 34:36
  • 33. Job 34:8; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 50:18
  • 34. S Job 15:32
  • 35. S Job 4:19
  • 36. S Genesis 7:23; Job 14:19; Matthew 7:26-27
  • 37. Job 21:15
  • 38. S Job 12:6
  • 39. S Job 21:16
  • 40. Psalms 5:11; Psalms 9:2; Psalms 32:11; Psalms 58:10; Psalms 64:10; Psalms 97:12; Psalms 107:42
  • 41. Job 21:3; Psalms 52:6
  • 42. Psalms 18:39
  • 43. S Job 15:30
  • 44. Isaiah 26:3,12; Isaiah 27:5; Romans 5:1
  • 45. S Genesis 17:1; Jeremiah 9:24
  • 46. S Job 8:7; Psalms 34:8-10; Proverbs 3:10; 1 Peter 5:6
  • 47. S Deuteronomy 8:3
  • 48. S Job 6:10
  • 49. S Job 15:11; Job 28:23; Psalms 37:31; Psalms 40:8; Proverbs 2:6; Ezekiel 3:10
  • 50. Job 8:5; Isaiah 31:6; Isaiah 44:22; Isaiah 55:7; Isaiah 59:20; Jeremiah 3:14,22; Ezekiel 18:32; Zechariah 1:3; Malachi 3:7
  • 51. S Job 5:24; Isaiah 19:22; Acts 20:32
  • 52. Job 11:14
  • 53. Job 28:6
  • 54. Psalms 19:10
  • 55. S Genesis 10:29
  • 56. S Job 1:10; Job 31:25; Isaiah 2:20; Isaiah 30:22; Isaiah 31:7; Isaiah 40:19-20; Matthew 6:19
  • 57. Job 31:24; Psalms 49:6; Psalms 52:7; Proverbs 11:28
  • 58. 2 Kings 18:7; Isaiah 33:6; Matthew 6:20-21
  • 59. Job 27:10; Psalms 2:8; Psalms 16:6; Psalms 37:4; Isaiah 58:14; Isaiah 61:10
  • 60. Job 11:15
  • 61. Job 11:17; Job 33:26; Psalms 27:6; Psalms 100:1
  • 62. S Job 5:27; Job 33:26; Job 34:28; Isaiah 58:9
  • 63. S Job 5:15; S Psalms 86:7; S Isaiah 30:19
  • 64. S Numbers 30:2
  • 65. Psalms 103:11; Psalms 145:19
  • 66. Job 33:28; Psalms 97:11; Proverbs 4:18
  • 67. S Job 11:17
  • 68. S Esther 5:12
  • 69. Psalms 18:27; S Matthew 23:12; 1 Peter 5:5
  • 70. Isaiah 1:18; Romans 4:5
  • 71. S 2 Samuel 22:21; Job 42:7-8

Job 22 Commentaries

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