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

“ Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. ”

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

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth - Listen to his commands, and obey his precepts. And lay up his words in thine heart - Embrace his truth, and do not forget it. Let it abide with...
Job 22:22 - 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...
Job 22:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth - Some, who wish to place Job before the law given by Moses, say that t...
Job 22:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Receive, I pray thee, &c.— This phrase, says Bishop Warburton, was taken from the verbal delivery of the Jewish law from Mount Sinai. He adds, "The rabbins were so sensible of the expressive pe...
Job 22:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. Lay up - ( Psalms 119:11 , "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee;" cf. Prov...
Job 22:22 - 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...
Job 22:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The law from his mouth. — It would be highly interesting to know whether by this law (Torah), the Law, the Torah, was in any way alluded to. One is naturally disposed to think that since Job seem...
Job 22:22 - 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...
Job 22:22 - 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,...
Job 22:22 - 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...
Job 22:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(21) В¶ Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. (22) Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. There is a great de...
Job 22:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth ,.... Not the law of Moses; for it is a question whether that was as yet, or could come to the knowledge of Job; rather any doctrine, as the word signifi...
Job 22:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. Ver. 22. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth ] Now he speaks Job fair whom before he had sufficiently ri...
Job 22:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Receive the law from his mouth Take the rule, whereby thou mayest govern thy thoughts, and words, and whole life, not from idolaters and profane heathen, whose opinion concerning God's providence t...
Job 22:22 - 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...
Job 22:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Good Counsel of Eliphaz; Encouragements to Return to God. B. C. 1520. 21 Acquaint...
Job 22:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Take the law and rule whereby thou governest thy thoughts, and words, and whole life, not from profane heathens, whose opinion concerning God's providence thou hast embraced, nor from thy own vain im...
Job 22:22 - 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...
Job 22:22 - 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...
Job 22:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

And lay up His words in thine heart. Meditation What is meditation? It is thinking steadily, continuously, repeatedly, on a subject. Surely we can find time to think in this steady way, of your...
Job 22:22 - 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),...
Job 22:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An Admonition to Repent
Job 22:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 4:1 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:2 ; Deuteronomy 4:1 ; Deuteronomy 4:2 ; Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ; Jeremiah 15:16 ; Job 23:12 ; Luke 2:19 ; Luke 2:51 ; Matthew 12:35 ; Matthew 13:52 ; Pr...
Job 22:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Receive — Take the rule whereby thou governest thy thoughts, and words, and whole life, not from thy own imaginations or passions, but from God, from his law, which is written in thy own mind, and...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Job 22:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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

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

Job 22:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

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

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

Job 22:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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

Job 22:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 22:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

Job 22:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 22:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes