New International Version
Job 22:5
5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
Job 22:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)No, it’s because of your wickedness! There’s no limit to your sins.
Context of Job 22:5
3What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless? 4“Is it for your piety that he rebukes you and brings charges against you? Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless? 6You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked. 7You gave no water to the weary and you withheld food from the hungry,
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הֲלֹ֣א רָעָֽתְךָ֣ רַבָּ֑ה וְאֵֽין־קֵ֝֗ץ לַעֲוֹנֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 22:5
- Job 4:7“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
- Job 11:14if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
- Job 15:5Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
- Job 21:27“I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 32:3He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
- Psalms 19:12But who can discern their own errors? Forgive my hidden faults.
- Psalms 40:12For troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within 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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