Job 22:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. ”

• Job 22:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Yet he filled their houses with good things - This is undoubtedly a biting sarcasm. Job had maintained that such people were prosperous. “Yes,” says Eliphaz, “their houses were well filled! They...

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• Job 22:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Yet he (m) filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. (m) He answers to that which Job had said, ( Job 21:7 ) that the wicked have prosperity in this world...

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• Job 22:18 - 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 22:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wicked . lawless. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44.

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• Job 22:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Yet he filled their houses with good things : but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me - Sarcastically quoting Job's words, Job 21:14 , Job 21:16...

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• Job 22:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Job 22:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. "Yet" you say ( Job 21:16 , see note) that it is "He who filled their houses with good" - "their" 'go...

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• Job 22:18 - 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 22:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Yet he filled their houses. — The bitterness of his irony now reaches its climax in that he adopts the very formula of repudiation Job had himself used ( Job 14:16 ).

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• Job 22:18 - 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 22:18 - 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 22:18 - 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 22:18 - 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 22:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Yet he filled their houses with good [things] ,.... With temporal good things, with this world's good, with plenty of providential goodness; earthly enjoyments are good things in themselves, and in...

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• Job 22:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Ver. 18. Yet he filled their houses with good things ] Heb. With good; that is, with all precious and p...

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• Job 22:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Yet he filled their houses with good things Yet it is true, that for a time God did prosper them, but, at last, cut them off in a tremendous manner. But the counsel of the wicked , &c. He repe...

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• Job 22:18 - 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 22:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Judgments Executed on the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       15 Hast thou marked the old way which wi...

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• Job 22:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Yet it is true that for a time God did prosper them, as he did thee; which also was the aggravation of their sin, and that which hastened their ruin: but at last, and in due time, God cut them off in...

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• Job 22:18 - 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 22:18 - 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 22:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Job 22:18 - 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 22:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Warning to Avoid Further Punishments

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• Job 22:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 2:7 ; Acts 14:17 ; Acts 15:16 ; Jeremiah 12:2 ; Job 12:6 ; Job 21:16 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 17:14

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• Job 22:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Yet — Yet it is true, that for a time God did prosper them, but at last, cut them off in a tremendous manner, But — He repeals Job's words, Job 21:16 , not without reflection: thou didst say so, b...

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