“ Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? ”
Which said unto God, Depart from us - Notes, Job 21:14 . A very correct description of the old world. They had no wish to retain God in their knowledge. Probably Eliphaz here refers to what Job...
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...
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
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...
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? Eliphaz designedly uses Job's own words ( Job 21:14-15 ), to show that the wicked, who so put away God from them, ar...
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...
Which said unto God, Depart from us. — Here again he attributes to Job the very thoughts he had ascribed to the wicked ( Job 20:14-15 ).
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...
Which said unto God, depart from us ,.... Choosing not to be admonished of their sins, nor be exhorted to repentance for them, nor be instructed by him in the way of their duty, nor to attend the wo...
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? Ver. 17. Which said unto God, Depart from us ] Atheists those antediluvians were; if not dogmatic, yet practical, such a...
Which said unto God, Depart from us He repeats Job's words, Job 21:14-15 ; but to a contrary purpose. Job alleged them to show that some men prospered, notwithstanding their professed wickedness,...
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...
He reports Job's words, Job 21:14,15 , (where they are explained,) but to a contrary purpose. Job alleged them to show that they prospered notwithstanding their professed wickedness, and Eliphaz p...
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
Isaiah 30:11 ; Job 21:10 ; Job 21:14 ; Job 21:15 ; Malachi 3:14 ; Matthew 8:29 ; Matthew 8:34 ; Psalms 4:6 ; Romans 1:28
Who — He repeats Job's words, Job 21:14-15 , but to a contrary purpose. Job alleged them to shew that they prospered notwithstanding their wickedness; and Eliphaz produces them to shew that they w...