“ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ”
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 22:1-5 . Is it n...
Eliphaz. See note on Job 2:11 . answered . spake. See note on Job 4:1 .
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Eliphaz asserts, that Job's justification of himself doth not please God, and that he is surrounded with snares, because he had been guilty of many iniquities. He exhorts him to repentance, with pr...
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, Eliphaz shows that man's goodness does not add to, or man's badness take from, the happiness of God: therefore it cannot be that God sends prosperi...
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 l...
XXII. (1) Then answered Eliphaz. — Eliphaz proceeds to reply in a far more exaggerated and offensive tone than he has yet adopted, accusing Job of definite and specific crimes. He begins by asse...
XIX. DOGMATIC AND MORAL ERROR Job 22:1-30 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE second colloquy has practically exhausted the subject of debate between Job and his friends. The three have really nothing more to...
“Acquaint Thyself with God” Job 22:1-30 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,...
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 ma...
CONTENTS In this Chapter Eliphaz brings a new charge against Job, which is the third he brought against him. He perverts Job's reasoning, it should seem, to a very different meaning to what he inten...
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said. As Eliphaz was the first that entered the discussion with Job, being perhaps the oldest man, and might be reckoned the wisest, so he gives the lead in e...
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, Ver. 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said ] Abruptly, without any preface, he sets upon Job (as doth likewise Bildad, Job 25:1-6), acting the...
Then Eliphaz answered Eliphaz, in this chapter, charges Job home with particular facts of cruelty and oppression, which he supposes him to be guilty of, though he cannot allege one proof of them; t...
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 wo...
Third Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2...
JOB CHAPTER 22 Eliphaz's answer: man's righteousness profiteth not God; nor can God fear man, Job 22:1-4 . He chargeth Job's misery on his sins, Job 22:5-11 ; which God beheld, and knew, nor...
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...
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 i...
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 pro...
EXPOSITION Job 22:1-18 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),...
Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said, ignoring Job's argument concerning the prosperity of the ungodly,
Job 22:1