God’s Word Translation
Job 22:4
4Does God correct you and bring you into a court of law because you fear him?
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“Can a human be of any use to God when even a wise person is only useful to himself? 3Is the Almighty pleased when you are righteous? Does he gain anything when you follow the path of integrity? Does God correct you and bring you into a court of law because you fear him? 5“Aren’t you really very wicked? Is there no end to your wrongdoing? 6For no reason you take your brothers’ goods as security for a loan and strip them of their clothes.
Read all of Job 22Job 22:4 word by word
הֲֽ֭מִיִּרְאָ֣תְךָ יֹכִיחֶ֑ךָ יָב֥וֹא עִ֝מְּךָ֗ בַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 22:4
- Psalms 39:11With stern warnings you discipline people for their crimes. Like a moth you eat away at what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a whisper in the wind. Selah
- Psalms 76:6At your stern warning, O God of Jacob, chariot riders and horses were put to sleep.
- Psalms 80:16The vine has been cut down and burned. Let them be destroyed by the threatening look on your face.
- Revelation 3:19I correct and discipline everyone I love. Take this seriously, and change the way you think and act.
- Job 7:12“Am I the sea or a sea monster that you have set a guard over me?
- Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, then he is the mighty one. If it is about justice, who will charge me with a crime?
- Job 14:3You observe this and call me to account to you.
- Job 16:21But my witness will plead for a human in front of God. The Son of Man will plead for his friend!
- Job 23:6Would he sue me and hide behind great legal maneuvers? No, he certainly would press charges against me.
- Job 34:23He doesn’t have to set a time for a person in order to bring him to divine judgment.
- Psalms 130:3O Lord, who would be able to stand if you kept a record of sins?
- Psalms 143:2Do not take me to court for judgment, because there is no one alive who is righteous in your presence.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14God will certainly judge everything that is done. This includes every secret thing, whether it is good or bad.
- Isaiah 3:14The Lord presents his case to the respected leaders and the officials of his people: “You have burned down the vineyard! Your houses are filled with goods stolen from the poor.”
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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