Job 22:4

Job 22:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
• New International Version (NIV)“Is it for your piety that he rebukes you and brings charges against you?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, And enters into judgment with you?

Context of Job 22:4

2‘Nothing that a man can do will help God. Even a wise man cannot help God. 3If you are a righteous person, it does nothing to help Almighty God. If you live a completely good life, it still does not help him. It is not because you respect and obey God that he punishes you. It is not because you are a good person that he accuses you. 5No! It is because you are a very wicked person. You have done too many evil things for anyone to count them. That is why he is punishing you. 6You took things from your friends when you lent money to them. You had no reason to do that. You even took away the only clothes that poor people were wearing.

Job 22:4 word by word

הֲֽ֭מִיִּרְאָ֣תְךָ יֹכִיחֶ֑ךָ יָב֥וֹא עִ֝מְּךָ֗ בַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Will he reproveיָכַחyâkach · to rebukeH3198
• thee for fearיִרְאָהyir'âh · fearH3374
• of thee? will he enterבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• with thee into judgmentמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941

Cross-references for Job 22:4

• Psalms 39:11When people do wrong things, you warn them and you punish them. You destroy their valuable things, like a moth eats cloth! Yes, our lives are only a breath! Selah.
• Psalms 76:6God of Jacob, when your enemies heard your battle cry, both the horses and their riders fell down dead.
• Psalms 80:16But now the enemy has cut down your vine, and they have burned it with fire. Show them that you are angry with them, and destroy them!
• Revelation 3:19I help everyone that I love. When they have done wrong things, I tell them, ‘You have done a wrong thing.’ I show them the right thing that they should do. So be serious about how you live. Stop doing wrong things and turn to me.
• Job 7:12Why do you have to watch me, God, like a guard? Do you think that I am a dangerous monster from the sea?
• Job 9:19If I tried to fight God, he is much stronger than I am. And if I ask for justice, who can bring God to court?
• Job 14:3I am only a human like that, so why do you watch me so carefully? Why do you want to bring me into a court to judge me?
• Job 16:21I need someone to speak to God on my behalf. He should ask God not to punish me, as someone might try to help his friends.
• Job 23:6Would God use his great power to argue against me? No! He would listen carefully to me.
• Job 34:23God does not have to tell people when they must come to him, so that he can judge them.
• Psalms 130:3Lord, if you should write down all our sins, nobody could stand as a righteous person.
• Psalms 143:2Do not judge me, your servant. Nobody is righteous when they stand in front of you.
• Ecclesiastes 12:14Remember that God will judge everything that we do, to see if it is good or it is bad. He knows even the things that we do secretly.
• Isaiah 3:14He comes to judge the leaders and rulers of his people. He says to them, ‘You have destroyed my vineyard. You have robbed the poor people and you have stored their things in your own houses.

Commentaries on Job 22:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4For fear of thee? - Is it because he is afraid that thou wilt do him some injury, that he has stripped thee of thy power and wealth?Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? - Or, rather, will he come into trial, and argue his cause before a tribunal, because he is afraid that his character will suffer, or because he feels himself bound to appear, and answer to the charges which may be brought? The language is all taken from courts of justice, and the object is, to reprove Job as if he felt that it was necessary that God should appear and answer to what he alleged against him. Will he…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Is the punishment inflicted on thee from fear of thee, in order to disarm thee? as Job had implied (see on Job 7:12; Job 7:20; and Job 10:17). will he enter ... into judgment?--Job had desired this (Job 13:3, 21). He ought rather to have spoken as in Psa 143:2.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