“ The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. ”
The righteous see it, and are glad - see the destruction of the wicked; compare Revelation 15:3 ; Revelation 16:7 ; Revelation 19:1-2 . This is designed by Eliphaz, probably, not only to state...
The righteous see [it], and are glad: (n) and the innocent laugh them to scorn. (n) The just rejoice at the destruction of the wicked for two reasons, first because God shows himself judge of the wo...
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...
The righteous see it , and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. The righteous see it, and are glad - They see God's judgments on the incorrigibly wicked, and know that the Judge of all th...
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...
The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. Triumph of the pious at the fall of the recent followers of the antediluvian sinners. Whilst in the act of denying 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...
The righteous see it. — That is, the destruction of the wicked, as in the days of Noah.
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...
The righteous see it, and are glad ,.... Not the counsel of the wicked, nor their outward prosperity, but their ruin and destruction, which is sure and certain; though it may sometimes seem to linge...
The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. Ver. 19. The righteous see it, and are glad ] And as or myself, the counsel of the wicked is far from me: I do therefore...
The righteous see it Whom God often spares in common calamities, and gives them to see the destruction of the wicked; as Noah, Lot, &c. And are glad Not that they insult over, or rejoice in,...
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...
The righteous see it; whom God oft spares in common calamities, and makes them to survive and see the destruction of the wicked; as Noah, Lot, &c. Are glad; not that they insult over or rejoi...
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
Job 9:23 ; Proverbs 11:10 ; Psalms 107:42 ; Psalms 48:11 ; Psalms 52:6 ; Psalms 58:10 ; Psalms 97:8 ; Revelation 18:20 ; Revelation 19:1-3