Job 22:8-18

8 Pero el hombre pudiente tuvo la tierra; y habitó en ella el honrado.

9 A las viudas enviaste vacías, y los brazos de los huérfanos fueron quebrados.

10 Por tanto hay lazos alrededor de ti, y te turba espanto repentino;

11 o tinieblas, para que no veas; y abundancia de agua te cubre.

12 ¿Por ventura Dios no está en la altura de los cielos? Mira la altura de las estrellas, cómo son altas.

13 ¿Y dirás tú: Qué sabe Dios? ¿Cómo juzgará por medio de la oscuridad?

14 Las nubes son su escondedero, y no ve; y por el cerco del cielo se pasea.

15 ¿Quieres tú guardar la senda antigua, que pisaron los varones perversos?

16 Los cuales fueron cortados antes de tiempo, cuyo fundamento fue como un río derramado.

17 Que decían a Dios: Apártate de nosotros, y ¿qué nos ha de hacer el Omnipotente?

18 El les había llenado sus casas de bienes. Por tanto el consejo de ellos lejos sea de mí.

Job 22:8-18 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.