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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Job 22:1

JOB CHAPTER 22 Eliphaz's answer: man's righteousness profiteth not God; nor can God fear man, Job 22:1. He chargeth Job's misery on his sins, Job 22:5; which God beheld, and knew, nor could they be hid from him, Job 22:12. The wicked, and their misery, Job 22:15. If they prospered, he would not hold with them; but their destruction the righteous should laugh at, Job 22:18. He exhorteth Job to know God and his law, and return to him: he should grow rich: God shall be his defence, his joy and confidence, Job 22:21. If he would pray, God would hear; and his desire and purpose should stand, Job 22:27. No text from Poole on this verse.

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