Job 22:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. ”

• Job 22:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty - Instead of complaining of him as you now do, you would then find calm enjoyment in contemplating his character and his moral government. This is a co...

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• Job 22:26 - 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 22:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. For then shalt thou have thy delight - Thou shalt know, from thy temporal prosperity, that God favors thee;...

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• Job 22:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. Lift up ... face ... - repeated from Zophar ( Job 11:15 ).

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• Job 22:26 - 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 22:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty. — Zophar had told him the same thing, that he should lift up his face without spot ( Job 11:15 ).

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• Job 22:26 - 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 22:26 - 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 22:26 - 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 22:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (23) If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. (24) Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of th...

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• Job 22:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For then shall thou have thy delight in the Almighty ,.... In the perfections of his nature, in the works of his hands, in his word and worship, in communion with him, and in the relation he stands...

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• Job 22:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. Ver. 26. For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty ] As in thine only portion. Thou shalt enjo...

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• Job 22:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty Thou shalt find delight, not only or chiefly in these outward comforts, but also and especially in God, whose face shall shine upon thee; and wh...

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• Job 22:26 - 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 22:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Good Counsel of Eliphaz; Encouragements to Return to God. B. C. 1520.       21 Acquaint...

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• Job 22:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  For; so this verse contains a reason why he might confidently expect all those former outward blessings, because he should have God's favour, which is the spring and foundation of them. Or, surely...

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• Job 22:26 - 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 22:26 - 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 22:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

  If thou return to the Almighty. Spiritual Reformation I. The nature of a true spiritual reformation is here set forth. 1. Reconciliation to God. Men in their unregenerate state are out of sy...

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• Job 22:26 - 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 22:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An Admonition to Repent

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• Job 22:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 3:20 ; 1 John 3:21 ; Isaiah 58:14 ; Job 11:15 ; Job 27:10 ; Job 34:9 ; Psalms 143:8 ; Psalms 25:1 ; Psalms 37:4 ; Psalms 86:4 ; Romans 7:22 ; Song of Solomon 2:3

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• Job 22:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Lift up — Look up to him, with chearfulness and confidence.

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