Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 22:28
Established — Thy purposes shalt not be disappointed, but ratified by God. And in all thy counsels, and actions, God shall give thee the light of his direction and governance, and of comfort and success.
Established — Thy purposes shalt not be disappointed, but ratified by God. And in all thy counsels, and actions, God shall give thee the light of his direction and governance, and of comfort and success.
Verse Job 22:28. _THOU SHALT ALSO DECREE A THING_] Whatsoever thou purposest in his strength, thou shalt be enabled to accomplish....
THOU SHALT ALSO DECREE A THING, AND IT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED UNTO THEE - Thou shalt form a purpose or plan, and it shall not be frustrated. It shall not be opposed by the events of divine Providence, b...
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'...
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...
Eliphaz exhorts Job to reconcile himself with God; assuring him of restoration and great felicity if he will do so. The passage consists of two parts, first, a series of exhortations, each of which i...
4. Repent, and restoration will be certain. (Job 22:21-30) TEXT 22:21-30 21 ACQUAINT NOW THYSELF WITH HIM, AND BE AT PEACE: Thereby good shall come onto thee. 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from...
_THOU SHALT ALSO DECREE A THING, AND IT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED UNTO THEE: AND THE LIGHT SHALL SHINE UPON THY WAYS._ Decree - purpose or resolve on a thing, and thy resolution shall be realized. LIGHT...
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...
When he has repented, all his desires will be granted....
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...
Job wished that God did not watch him (Job 7:19). But Job hoped for the day when he could speak with God (Job 14:15). Eliphaz promised a good life to Job, if only Job would confess his evil deeds. An...
THOU SHALT ALSO DECREE A THING. — As, for instance, in the memorable case of Abraham’s intercession for Sodom, to which there is not improbably an allusion here....
וְֽ תִגְזַר ־אֹ֖ומֶר וְ יָ֣קָם לָ֑ךְ וְ
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...
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the (t) light shall shine upon thy ways. (t) That is, the favour of God....
_Decree. Thy projects shall succeed. Septuagint, "But he shall appoint for thee the rule of justice." (Haydock)_...
(23) If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. (24) Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the...
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...
THOU SHALT ALSO DECREE A THING, AND IT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED UNTO THEE,.... Strictly speaking, this is only true of God, whose decrees are unfrustrable, whose counsel shall stand, and the thoughts of h...
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. Ver. 28. _Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee_] God w...
_It shall be established_ Thy purposes shall not be disappointed, but ratified by God. And in all thy counsels and actions God shall give thee the light of his direction and governance, and of comfort...
Thou shalt also decree a thing, planning the doing of it, AND IT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED UNTO THEE, it will surely come to pass; AND THE LIGHT SHALL SHINE UPON THY WAYS, his labors would surely be crowne...
AN ADMONITION TO REPENT...
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...
21-30 The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had hitherto not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. The counsel Eliphaz here gives is good, though,...
Thy purposes and designs shall not be disappointed, but effected and ratified by God; which is a great satisfaction. In all thy counsels, and courses, and actions, God shall give thee the light of his...
Job 22:28 declare H1504 (H8799) thing H562 established H6965 (H8799) light H216 shine H5050 (H8804) ways...
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...
_For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty._ AN OUTLINE OF THE DEVOUT LIFE These words can be raised to a higher level than that on which Eliphaz placed them, and regarded as describing t...
_If thou return to the Almighty._ SPIRITUAL REFORMATION I. The nature of a true spiritual reformation is here set forth. 1. Reconciliation to God. Men in their unregenerate state are out of sympath...
_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...
Isaiah 30:21; James 4:15; Job 29:3; John 8:12; Lamentations 3:37;...