Job 22:7-17

7 aquam lasso non dedisti et esurienti subtraxisti panem

8 in fortitudine brachii tui possidebas terram et potentissimus obtinebas eam

9 viduas dimisisti vacuas et lacertos pupillorum comminuisti

10 propterea circumdatus es laqueis et conturbat te formido subita

11 et putabas te tenebras non visurum et impetu aquarum inundantium non oppressurum

12 an cogitas quod Deus excelsior caelo et super stellarum vertices sublimetur

13 et dicis quid enim novit Deus et quasi per caliginem iudicat

14 nubes latibulum eius nec nostra considerat et circa cardines caeli perambulat

15 numquid semitam saeculorum custodire cupis quam calcaverunt viri iniqui

16 qui sublati sunt ante tempus suum et fluvius subvertit fundamentum eorum

17 qui dicebant Deo recede a nobis et quasi nihil possit facere Omnipotens aestimabant eum

Job 22:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 22

This chapter contains the third and last reply of Eliphaz to Job, in which he charges him with having too high an opinion of himself, of his holiness and righteousness, as if God was profited by it, and laid thereby under obligation to him, whereas he was not, Job 22:1-3; and as if he reproved and chastised him, because of his fear of him, whereas it was because of his sins, Job 22:4,5; an enumeration of which he gives, as of injustice, oppression, cruelty to the poor, and even of atheism and infidelity, for which snares and fears were around him, and various calamities, Job 22:6-14; and compares his way and course of life to that of the men of the old world, and the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, and suggests that his end would be like theirs, unless he repented, Job 22:15-20; and then concludes with an exhortation to him to return to God by repentance, and to reform, when he should see happy times again, and enjoy much outward and inward prosperity, and be an instrument of doing much good to many, Job 22:21-30.