Christian Standard Bible
Job 22:5
5Isn’t your wickedness abundant and aren’t your iniquities endless?
Job 22:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
- New International Version (NIV)Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquity without end?
Context of Job 22:5
3Does it delight the Almighty if you are righteous? Does he profit if you perfect your behavior? 4Does he correct you and take you to court because of your piety? Isn’t your wickedness abundant and aren’t your iniquities endless? 6For you took collateral from your brothers without cause, stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked. 7You gave no water to the thirsty and withheld food from the famished,
Read all of Job 22Job 22:5 word by word
הֲלֹ֣א רָעָֽתְךָ֣ רַבָּ֑ה וְאֵֽין־קֵ֝֗ץ לַעֲוֹנֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 22:5
- Job 4:7Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?
- Job 11:14if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it, and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents —
- Job 15:5Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Job 21:27I know your thoughts very well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 32:3He was also angry at Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute him and yet had condemned him.
- Psalms 19:12Who perceives his unintentional sins? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
- Psalms 40:12For troubles without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me; I am unable to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my courage leaves me.
Commentaries on Job 22:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Is not thy wickedness great? - Thy sins are not only many, but they are great; and of thy continuance in them there is no end, קץ אין ein kets .Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Is not thy wickedness great? - That is, “Is it not utter presumption and folly for a man, whose wickedness is undoubtedly so great, to presume to enter into a litigation with God?” Eliphaz here “assumes” it as an undeniable proposition, that Job was a great sinner. This charge had not been directly made before. He and his friends had argued evidently on that supposition, and had maintained that one who was a great sinner would be punished in this life for…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-14Verses 5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and that he did harm with his wealth and power in the time of his prosperity.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Heretofore Eliphaz had only insinuated, now he plainly asserts Job's guilt, merely on the ground of his sufferings.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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