Job 22:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. ”

• Job 22:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee - Thou shalt form a purpose or plan, and it shall not be frustrated. It shall not be opposed by the events of divine Providen...

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• Job 22:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the (t) light shall shine upon thy ways. (t) That is, the favour of God.

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• Job 22:28 - 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 22:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. Thou shalt also decree a thing - Whatsoever thou purposest in his strength, thou shalt...

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• Job 22:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. Decree - purpose or resolve on a thing, and thy resolution shall be realized....

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• Job 22:28 - 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 22:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou shalt also decree a thing. — As, for instance, in the memorable case of Abraham’s intercession for Sodom, to which there is not improbably an allusion here.

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• Job 22:28 - 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 22:28 - 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 22:28 - 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 22:28 - 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 22:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee ,.... Strictly speaking, this is only true of God, whose decrees are unfrustrable, whose counsel shall stand, and the thoughts o...

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• Job 22:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. Ver. 28. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee ] God...

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• Job 22:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  It shall be established Thy purposes shall not be disappointed, but ratified by God. And in all thy counsels and actions God shall give thee the light of his direction and governance, and of comfor...

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• Job 22:28 - 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 22:28 - 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 22:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thy purposes and designs shall not be disappointed, but effected and ratified by God; which is a great satisfaction. In all thy counsels, and courses, and actions, God shall give thee the light of hi...

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• Job 22:28 - 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 22:28 - 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 22:28 - 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 22:28 - 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 22:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An Admonition to Repent

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• Job 22:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 30:21 ; James 4:15 ; Job 29:3 ; John 8:12 ; Lamentations 3:37 ; Malachi 4:2 ; Matthew 21:22 ; Proverbs 4:18 ; Psalms 112:4 ; Psalms 20:4 ; Psalms 90:17 ; Psalms 97:11

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• Job 22:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Established — Thy purposes shalt not be disappointed, but ratified by God. And in all thy counsels, and actions, God shall give thee the light of his direction and governance, and of comfort and su...

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