New King James Version
Job 22:4
4“Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects 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?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Is it for your fear of him that he reproves 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, Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself? 3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless? “Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, And enters into judgment with you? 5Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquity without end? 6For you have taken pledges from your brother for no reason, And stripped the naked of their clothing.
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 39:11When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; Surely every man is vapor. Selah
- Psalms 76:6At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both the chariot and horse were cast into a dead sleep.
- Psalms 80:16It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
- Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
- Job 7:12Am I a sea, or a sea serpent, That You set a guard over me?
- Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, indeed He is strong; And if of justice, who will appoint my day in court?
- Job 14:3And do You open Your eyes on such a one, And bring me to judgment with Yourself?
- Job 16:21Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!
- Job 23:6Would He contend with me in His great power? No! But He would take note of me.
- Job 34:23For He need not further consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.
- Psalms 130:3If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
- Psalms 143:2Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no one living is righteous.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.
- Isaiah 3:14The Lord will enter into judgment With the elders of His people And His princes: “For you have eaten up the vineyard; The plunder 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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