Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 22:2
Can, &c. — Why dost thou insist so much upon thy own righteousness, as if thou didst oblige God by it.
Can, &c. — Why dost thou insist so much upon thy own righteousness, as if thou didst oblige God by it.
Verse Job 22:2. _CAN A MAN BE PROFITABLE UNTO GOD_] God does not afflict thee because thou hast deprived him of any excellency. A man may be profitable to a man, but no man can profit his Maker. He ha...
CAN A MAN BE PROFITABLE UNTO GOD? - Can a man confer any favor on God, so as to lay him under obligation? Eliphaz supposes that Job sets up a “claim” to the favor of God, because he was of service to...
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'...
CAN... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. MAN. a strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14. GOD. Hebrew El. AS. nay. The Hebrew accent _(Tebir)_ on _ki,_ "as", is disjunctive, and means "nay". See not...
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...
This verse reads, Can a man be profitable unto God? Nay, he that is wise is profitable unto himself. A man's actions cannot affect God; the advantage of wisdom, that is, prudent and right conduct,...
God's treatment of men cannot be due to any respect which He has to Himself, for He is too lofty to be affected by anything human. He deals with men according to their ways, and Job's afflictions can...
III. FALLACIES, FOLLIES, AND LOGOTHERAPYTHIRD TIME'S A CHARM (Job 22:1, Job 26:14) A. ELIPHAZ ON THE FUNCTIONAL VALUE OF MAN (Job 22:1-30) 1. God, needing nothing, is not self-seeking in punishing...
_CAN A MAN BE PROFITABLE UNTO GOD, AS HE THAT IS WISE MAY BE PROFITABLE UNTO HIMSELF?_ As he that is wise - rather, yea, the (truly) wise (pious) man profiteth himself. So "understanding" or "wise" -...
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...
In Job 21:14-15, Job spoke about the attitudes of wicked people. Such people will not serve God because there is no benefit for them. But Job would not behave like them. Even when Job lost all his po...
AS HE THAT IS WISE. — It is probably an independent statement: “Surely he that is wise is profitable, &c.”...
הַ לְ אֵ֥ל יִסְכָּן ־גָּ֑בֶר כִּֽי ־יִסְכֹּ֖ן
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...
Can a man be (a) profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? (a) Though man was just, yet God could not profit from this his justice; and therefore when he punished him, h...
_Knowledge. How then canst thou dispute with God?_...
(1) В¶ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, (2) Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? (3) Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art right...
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...
CAN A MAN BE PROFITABLE UNTO GOD?.... Eliphaz imagined that Job thought so, by his insisting so much on his integrity, and complaining of his afflictions; and that God was beholden to him for his holi...
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? Ver. 2. _Can a man be profitable unto God_] No, neither doth Job say he can, but the contrary, Job 21:22. Howbeit...
_Can a man be profitable unto God_ That is, add any thing to his perfection or felicity? namely, by his righteousness, as the next verse shows. Why then dost thou insist so much upon thy own righteous...
Can a man be profitable unto God, no matter how good or how great he may be in this world, AS HE THAT IS WISE MAY BE PROFITABLE UNTO HIMSELF? This is really the answer to the first part of the verse:...
ELIPHAZ CHARGES JOB WITH WICKEDNESS...
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...
HE THAT IS WISE MAY BE PROFITABLE UNTO HIMSELF: Or, if he may be profitable, doth his good success depend thereon?...
"CAN. VIGOROUS MAN BE OF USE TO GOD": "In his previous discourse, Job argued that God's punishments are indiscriminate, that is, they come upon the wicked and righteous alike (Job 21:23-26). Eliphaz n...
1-4 Eliphaz considers that, because Job complained so much of his afflictions, he thought God was unjust in afflicting him; but Job was far from thinking so. What Eliphaz says, is unjustly applied to...
BE PROFITABLE UNTO GOD, i.e. add any thing to his perfection or felicity, to wit, by his righteousness, as the next verse shows. Why then dost thou insist so much upon thy own righteousness, as if tho...
Job 22:2 man H1397 profitable H5532 (H8799) God H410 Though H3588 wise H7919 (H8688) profitable H5532 ...
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...
_Can a man be profitable unto God?_ THE THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ Two general truths. I. That the great God is perfectly independent of man’s character, whether right or wrong. “Can a man be profitab...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:1 Third Cycle. The consistent pattern of the first two cycles unravels in this last dialogue. Eliphaz describes Job’s life as a constant stream of wicked activity (ch. Job
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:2 Eliphaz argues that there could be no purpose for suffering other than to indicate judgment and a need to repent (v. Job 22:4)....
_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...
Deuteronomy 10:13; Ecclesiastes 7:11; Ecclesiastes 7:12; Galatians 6:7;...