“ Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? ”
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? - Hast thou seen what has happened in former times to wicked people? Job had maintained that God did not deal with people in this world...
Hast thou marked the old way (k) which wicked men have trodden? (k) How God has punished them from the beginning?
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...
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Hast thou marked the old way - This is supposed to be another accusation; as i! he had said, "Thou hollowest the same way that the wicked o...
Hast thou marked? &c.— As the universal deluge was a most signal and memorable instance of God's displeasure against wickedness and wicked men, Eliphaz takes occasion to enlarge upon it for fiv...
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Marked - rather, Dost thou keep to? i:e., wish to follow (so Hebrew, 2 Samuel 22:22 ). If so, beware of sharing their end. The...
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...
Hast thou marked the old way...? — Rather, Dost thou keep the old way which the wicked men trod? Dost thou hold their tenets?
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...
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden ?] The evil way that wicked men have walked in ever since man apostatized from God, the way of Cain and his descendants, who were of the wi...
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Ver. 15. Hast thou, marked the old way ] Heb. The way of old. Broughton rendereth it, the way of the old world; of those ungodly ones be...
Hast thou marked the old way? Hebrew, ארח עולם, orach gnolam, the way of antiquity , that is, of men living in ancient times, or former ages. And, by their way , he either means their course, and...
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...
Judgments Executed on the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wi...
Heb. the way of antiquity , i.e. of men living in ancient times, or former ages. By this way is here meant, either, 1. Their course or common practice; or, 2. Their end or success; as the way...
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...
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? The way of the wicked described It is commonly remarked, how little advantage mankind make of each other’s experience. This is surely...
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),...
Warning to Avoid Further Punishments
Genesis 6:11-13 ; Genesis 6:5 ; Luke 17:26 ; Luke 17:27
Old way — Heb. the way of antiquity, of men living in ancient times, their end or success.