English Standard Version
Job 22:4
4Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
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?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, And enters into judgment with you?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Is it because you’re so pious that he accuses you and brings judgment against you?
Context of Job 22:4
2"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. 3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you? 5Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities. 6For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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הֲֽ֭מִיִּרְאָ֣תְךָ יֹכִיחֶ֑ךָ יָב֥וֹא עִ֝מְּךָ֗ בַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 22:4
- Psalms 39:11When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
- Psalms 76:6At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse lay stunned.
- Psalms 80:16They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
- Revelation 3:19Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
- Job 7:12Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
- Job 9:19If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
- Job 14:3And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
- Job 16:21that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
- Job 23:6Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would pay attention to me.
- Job 34:23For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
- Psalms 130:3If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
- Psalms 143:2Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
- Isaiah 3:14The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your 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
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