EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
Job 22:10-11
Job’s friends realised that such behaviour is evil.
They thought that such behaviour was the reason for Job’s troubles.
Job’s friends realised that such behaviour is evil.
They thought that such behaviour was the reason for Job’s troubles.
Verse Job 22:10. _THEREFORE SNARES_] As thou hast dealt with others, so has God, in his retributive providence, dealt with thee. As thou hast spoiled, so art thou spoiled. Thou art taken in a net fro...
THEREFORE SNARES ARE ROUND ABOUT THEE - “Snares” were used for catching wild animals and birds, and the word then came to denote any sudden calamity; see Job 18:8. Eliphaz here says, that it “must be”...
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...
The consequence of this inhumanity and injustice is seen in the snares and terrors from God that surround Job. 11. This verse should probably be read, Or seest thou not the darkness, And the floods...
2. Specific sins charged against Job, and their consequences (Job 22:6-11) TEXT 22:6-11 6 FOR THOU HAST TAKEN PLEDGES OF THY BROTHER FOR NOUGHT, And stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 Thou ha...
_THEREFORE SNARES ARE ROUND ABOUT THEE, AND SUDDEN FEAR TROUBLETH THEE;_ Snares - alluding to Job's admission (Job 19:6; cf. Job 18:10; Proverbs 22:5, "Snares are in the way of the froward")....
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...
SNARES... ABOUT THEE. — That is, _Fear troubleth thee, or darkness, &c._ “If darkness and abundance of waters cover thee so that thou canst not see, is not God in the high heavens, though thou canst n...
עַל ־כֵּ֭ן סְבִיבֹותֶ֣יךָ פַחִ֑ים וִֽ֝ יבַהֶלְךָ...
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...
(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...
THEREFORE SNARES [ARE] ROUND ABOUT THEE,.... Not what occasion sin, draw into it, and issue in it, as inward corruptions, the temptations of Satan, and the things of this world, but punishments; becau...
Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; Ver. 10. _Therefore snares are round about thee_] _Flagitium et flagellum sunt sicut acus et filum,_ Sin and punishment are ti...
_Therefore snares are round about thee_ For these and the like crimes thou art encompassed with dangers and calamities. _And sudden fear troubleth thee_ Besides thy present miseries, thou art tormente...
ELIPHAZ CHARGES JOB WITH WICKEDNESS...
Therefore, as a punishment of such sins, SNARES ARE ROUND ABOUT THEE, various forms of destruction besieged him, AND SUDDEN FEAR TROUBLETH THEE, a sudden deadly anguish overpowered him time and again,...
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...
As. result Job was ensnared by such sins (compare with Job 18:9)....
5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and...
For these and the like crimes. The cause of thy ruin is not secret from God's sovereign power, and unsearchable judgments, (as thou pretendest,) but plain and manifest, even thy own crying sins. SNARE...
Job 22:10 snares H6341 around H5439 sudden H6597 fear H6343 troubles H926 (H8762) snares - Job 18:
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...
_Is not thy wickedness great?_ THE CHARGE AGAINST JOB I. Wrong in relation to man. In regard to the charge which he here brings against Job, it is worthy of note that whilst most expositors regard E...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:5 Eliphaz assumes that Job’s circumstances reveal significant EVIL in his life. He describes the likely ways that Job has sinned. ⇐
_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...
1 Thessalonians 5:3; Job 13:21; Job 18:8; Job 19:6; Job 6:4;...