“ Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; ”
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 18:8-10 . Eliphaz here says, that it...
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...
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; Therefore snares - As thou hast dealt with others, so has God, in his retributive providence, dealt with thee. As thou hast sp...
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 frowar...
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...
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...
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...
(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 wate...
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; be...
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...
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 torment...
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...
Job Accused of Various Crimes. B. C. 1520. 5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine...
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. Sna...
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...
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 regar...
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),...
Eliphaz Charges Job with Wickedness
1 Thessalonians 5:3 ; Job 13:21 ; Job 18:8-10 ; Job 19:6 ; Job 6:4 ; Proverbs 1:27 ; Proverbs 3:25 ; Proverbs 3:26 ; Psalms 11:6