Job 22:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. ”

• Job 22:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thick clouds are a covering to him - This is to be understood as expressing what Eliphaz regarded as the sentiment of Job - that so thick clouds intervened between him and man that he could not t...

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• Job 22:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 22:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  walketh . walketh habitually. circuit . vault. Hebrew. hug,

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• Job 22:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. He walketh in the circuit of heaven - He confines himself to those infinitely exalted regions and car...

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• Job 22:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. Covering - a veil. "In the circuit of heaven" only, not taking any part in earthly affairs. Job...

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• Job 22:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 22:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 22:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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,...

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• Job 22:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 22:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 22:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not ,.... Thus Job is made to speak, or to reason as atheistical persons, or such who are inclined to atheism would, who take God to be altogether...

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• Job 22:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. Ver. 14. Thick clouds are a covering to him ] He lieth close hid among the clouds, and seeth nothi...

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• Job 22:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thick clouds are a covering to him He is surrounded, thou imaginest, with such thick clouds that they conceal us from his sight. And he walketh in the circuit of the heaven His delight is in heav...

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• Job 22:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 22:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job Accused of Various Crimes. B. C. 1520.       5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine...

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• Job 22:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  His conversation and business and delight is in the higher and heavenly world, which is worthy of his care, but he will not disparage nor burden himself with the care of this contemptible spot of ear...

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• Job 22:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 22:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 22:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Job 22:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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),...

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• Job 22:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Warning to Avoid Further Punishments

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• Job 22:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 23:24 ; Job 34:22 ; Luke 12:2 ; Luke 12:3 ; Psalms 139:1 ; Psalms 139:11 ; Psalms 139:12 ; Psalms 139:2 ; Psalms 33:14 ; Psalms 97:2

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• Job 22:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Walketh — His delight is in heaven, which is worthy of his care, but he will not burden himself with the care of earth: which was the opinion of many Heathen philosophers, and, as they fancied, was...

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