Job 22:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. ”

• Job 22:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He shall deliver the island of the innocent - Margin, “the innocent shall deliver the island.” Never was there a more unhappy translation than this; and it is quite clear that our translators had...

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• Job 22:30 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  He shall deliver the (x) island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. (x) God will deliver a whole country from peril, even for the just man's sake.

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• Job 22:30 - 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 22:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the island of. Island put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for coasts, or borders; but the words are omitted by the Septuagint it. The Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgat...

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• Job 22:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. He shall deliver the island of the innocent - The word אי ai, which we translate island, is most proba...

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• Job 22:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  When men are cast down, &c.— For whoever humbleth himself shall be extolled and had in glory; he that hath lowly eyes shall be exalted: Job 22:30 . Whoever is innocent shall be safe, and de...

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• Job 22:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. Island - i:e., dwelling. But the Hebrew [cut down from 'eeyn ( H369 )] expresses the nega...

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• Job 22:30 - 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 22:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He shall deliver the island of the innocent is undoubtedly an error for He shall deliver him that is not innocent: that is, either God shall deliver, or the humble person, if that is the subject...

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• Job 22:30 - 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 22:30 - 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 22:30 - 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 22:30 - 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 22:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He shall deliver the island of the innocent ,.... But where is there such an island, an island of innocent persons? it seems to be better rendered by others, "the innocent shall deliver the island"...

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• Job 22:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. Ver. 30. He shall deliver the island of the innocent ] Or, He shall deliver the not innocent; him t...

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• Job 22:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He Whose prerogative it is to give deliverances; shall deliver Namely, upon thy request, as the following clause shows; the island of the innocent Not only thyself, when thou shalt become inno...

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• Job 22:30 - 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 22:30 - 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 22:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He, i.e. God, as Job 22:29 , whose prerogative it is to give deliverances. Shall deliver, to wit, upon thy request, as the following clause showeth: God will hear thy prayers even for others,...

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• Job 22:30 - 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 22:30 - Scofield Reference Notes

  island That is, coast.

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• Job 22:30 - 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 22:30 - 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 22:30 - 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 22:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An Admonition to Repent

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• Job 22:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Timothy 2:8 ; Acts 19:15 ; Acts 19:16 ; Acts 27:24 ; Genesis 18:26-32 ; Isaiah 1:15 ; Isaiah 58:12 ; James 5:15 ; James 5:16 ; Jeremiah 5:1 ; Job 42:8 ; Malachi 1:9 ; Matthew 17:19 ;...

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• Job 22:30 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He, &c. — God will have so great a respect to thy innocency, that for thy sake he will deliver those that belong to thee, or live with thee, or near thee, thought in themselves they be ripe for...

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