“ Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. ”
Or darkness - Darkness and night in the Scriptures are emblems of calamity. That thou canst not see - Deep and fearful darkness; total night, so that nothing is visible. That is, the heaviest...
Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and (f) abundance of waters cover thee. (f) That is, manifold afflictions.
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...
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. Or darkness, that thou canst not see - The sense of this passage, in the connection that the particle or gives it with the...
Or darkness— Thou beholdest darkness, and not light. Houbigant. Heath renders it, Or is it dark, that thou canst not see? Observing that the path of the wicked man is here represented as covere...
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. That - so that thou canst not see. Abundance - floods. Dauger by floods is a less frequent image in this book tha...
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...
Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see ,.... Or darkness is round about thee, thou art enveloped in it; meaning either judicial blindness, and darkness, and stupidity of mind, which must be his case...
Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. Ver. 11. Or darkness, that thou canst not see ] Sunt tenebrae supplicia, et damnatorum desperationes, saith Brentius h...
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...
Darkness; either, 1. A darkness and confusion of mind so great that thou canst not discern the true cause and use of all thy sufferings. Or, 2. Grievous calamities, which are oft called darknes...
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
Isaiah 8:22 ; Job 18:18 ; Job 18:6 ; Job 19:8 ; Joel 2:2 ; Joel 2:3 ; Jonah 2:3 ; Lamentations 3:2 ; Lamentations 3:54 ; Matthew 8:12 ; Proverbs 4:19 ; Psalms 124:4 ; Psalms 42:7 ; Psal...
Or — Either thou art troubled with fear of further evils or with the gross darkness of thy present state of misery. Waters — Variety of sore afflictions, which are frequently compared to water.