Job 22:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. ”

• Job 22:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou hast not given water to the weary - That is, thou hast withheld the rites of hospitality - one of the most grievous offences which could be charged on an Arabian; compare the notes at Isaia...

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• Job 22:7 - 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 22:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. Thou hast not given water - It was esteemed a great virtue in the East to furnish thirsty travelers wi...

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• Job 22:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. Hospitality to the weary traveler is regarded in the East as a primary duty ( Isaiah 21:14 ).

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• Job 22:7 - 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 22:7 - 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 22:7 - 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 22:7 - 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 22:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 22:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink ,.... To a weary thirsty traveller, to whom in those hot countries cold water was very refreshing, and which in desert places was not to be had in com...

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• Job 22:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. Ver. 7. Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink ] But hast slain him with thirst, when thou...

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• Job 22:7 - 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 22:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job Accused of Various Crimes. B. C. 1520.       5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine...

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• Job 22:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Surely thou hast been so hard-hearted as to deny a cup of cold water to those that needed and desired it. Water was ofttimes scarce and precious in those hot countries, and was appropriated to partic...

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• Job 22:7 - 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 22:7 - 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 22:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Is not thy wickedness great? The charge against Job I. Wrong in relation to man. In regard to the charge which he here brings against Job, it is worthy of note that whilst most expositors regar...

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• Job 22:7 - 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 22:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Eliphaz Charges Job with Wickedness

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• Job 22:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 15:7-11 ; Ezekiel 18:16 ; Ezekiel 18:7 ; Isaiah 58:10 ; Isaiah 58:7 ; Job 31:17 ; Matthew 25:42 ; Proverbs 11:24 ; Proverbs 11:25 ; Proverbs 19:17 ; Psalms 112:9 ; Romans 12:2...

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