Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 22:15
Old way — Heb. the way of antiquity, of men living in ancient times, their end or success.
Old way — Heb. the way of antiquity, of men living in ancient times, their end or success.
Verse Job 22:15. _HAST THOU MARKED THE OLD WAY_] This is supposed to be another accusation; as i! he had said, "Thou hollowest the same way that the wicked of old have walked in." Here is an evident a...
HAST THOU MARKED THE OLD WAY WHICH WICKED MEN HAVE TRODDEN? - Hast thou seen what has happened in former times to wicked people? Job had maintained that God did not deal with people in this world acco...
THE THIRD SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER 22 The Third Address of Eliphaz _ 1. Is not thy wickedness great? (Job 22:1)_ 2. In what Job had sinned (Job 22:6) 3. The omniscience of God and the ways...
JOB 22. THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ. The only new thing that Eliphaz has to say, is definitely to describe the sin of Job! Yet his mildness makes him end with bright promises. JOB 22:1. Is it not to Job'...
It was under a similar feeling in regard to God that the great sinners before the Flood filled the earth with violence, and Eliphaz asks Job whether he will go the length of accepting the principles a...
Eliphaz, having in Job 22:6 suggested what Job's offences must have been, now suggests under what feeling in regard to God he must have committed them. He thought God so far removed from the world tha...
The Third Circle of Speeches In the first round of speeches the three friends exhausted the argument from the general conception of God. In the second they exhausted the argument from the operation o...
HAST THOU MARKED? &C.— As the universal deluge was a most signal and memorable instance of God's displeasure against wickedness and wicked men, Eliphaz takes occasion to enlarge upon it for five or si...
3. Warning that all evil men have been punished (Job 22:12-20) TEXT 22:12-20 12 IS NOT GOD IN THE HEIGHT OF HEAVEN? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are! 13 And thou sayest, What...
_HAST THOU MARKED THE OLD WAY WHICH WICKED MEN HAVE TRODDEN?_ Marked - rather, Dost thou keep to? i:e., wish to follow (so Hebrew, 2 Samuel 22:22). If so, beware of sharing their end. THE OLD WAY -...
22:15 mark (b-3) Some read 'Dost thou follow.' wicked (c-8) Or 'vain.'...
HAST THOU MARKED] RV 'wilt thou keep.'...
THE LAST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ 1-11. Eliphaz ignoring Job's last speech, perhaps because he could not answer it, argues that God's treatment of man must be impartial, since He has nothing to gain or lose...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 22 ELIPHAZ’S LAST SPEECH G...
The three friends told Job to learn from ancient advice (Job 8:8-9; Job 15:10; Job 20:4). But Eliphaz knew that some ancient advice is wrong....
HAST THOU MARKED THE OLD WAY...? — Rather, _Dost thou keep the old way which the wicked men trod? Dost thou hold their tenets? _...
הַ אֹ֣רַח עֹולָ֣ם תִּשְׁמֹ֑ר אֲשֶׁ֖ר דָּרְכ֣וּ...
XIX. DOGMATIC AND MORAL ERROR Job 22:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE second colloquy has practically exhausted the subject of debate between Job and his friends. The three have really nothing more to say in t...
“ACQUAINT THYSELF WITH GOD” Job 22:1 Eliphaz opens the third cycle of the discussion with a speech altogether too hard and cruel. He begins with an _enumeration of Job's fancied misdeeds,_ Job 22:1....
Here begins the third cycle in the controversy, and again EIiphaz is the first speaker. His address consisted of two movements. First, he made a definite charge against Job (1-20); and, second, he mad...
Hast thou marked the old way (k) which wicked men have trodden? (k) How God has punished them from the beginning?...
_Wicked. Alexandrian Septuagint, "just." But Grabe substitutes unjust; (Haydock) as otherwise, Eliphaz would argue against his own principles: unless just be put ironically for hypocrites. (Calmet) --...
(5) В¶ Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? (6) For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. (7) Thou hast not given water...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
HAST THOU MARKED THE OLD WAY WHICH WICKED MEN HAVE TRODDEN?] The evil way that wicked men have walked in ever since man apostatized from God, the way of Cain and his descendants, who were of the wicke...
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Ver. 15. _Hast thou, marked the old way_] Heb. The way of old. Broughton rendereth it, the way of the old world; of those ungodly ones befo...
_Hast thou marked the old way?_ Hebrew, ארח עולם, _orach gnolam, the way of antiquity_, that is, of men living in ancient times, or former ages. And, by their _way_, he either means their course, and...
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Did Job intend to observe and follow the way of the wicked children of the world?...
WARNING TO AVOID FURTHER PUNISHMENTS...
JOB'S SIN EXPOSED BEFORE GOD (vv.1-8) Eliphaz considered that he was representing God in speaking, and exposing what he imagined were the sins of Job. He first asks a question that it is well worth...
Some believe that this is. reference to the flood during Noah's time. "The foundations of their existence collapsed from beneath them, swept away as by. flood (Matthew 7:26). They were snatched away w...
15-20 Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, that we may not walk therein. But if others are consume...
Heb. _the way of antiquity_, i.e. of men living in ancient times, or former ages. By this way is here meant, either, 1. Their course or common practice; or, 2. Their end or success; as the WAY is tak...
Job 22:15 keep H8104 (H8799) old H5769 way H734 wicked H205 men H4962 trod H1869 (H8804) the old way -...
CONTENTS: Eliphaz's third discourse, accusing Job again of hypocrisy. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: It is the duty of those especially who are in affliction to keep up a perfect acquain...
Job 22:5. _Is not thy wickedness great?_ This speech of Eliphaz is cruel, and very much embittered; for it was mere suspicion that Job had robbed the widow, and stripped the naked. Job replies to it m...
_Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?_ THE WAY OF THE WICKED DESCRIBED It is commonly remarked, how little advantage mankind make of each other’s experience. This is surely a s...
_THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE_ Remonstrates with Job on his self-righteousness, and plainly charges him with grievous transgressions as the cause of his present sufferings; concludes with pro...
EXPOSITION JOB 22:1 Eliphaz returns to the attack, but with observations that are at first strangely pointless and irrelevant, _e.g._ on the unprofitableness of man to God (verses l, 2), and on the s...
So Eliphaz takes up the argument now. And the same old story: he accuses Job of being wicked and he actually makes many bad accusations. He said, Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise m...
Genesis 6:11; Genesis 6:5; Luke 17:26; Luke 17:27...