New King James Version
Job 22:5
5Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquity without end?
Job 22:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
- New International Version (NIV)Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.
- New Living Translation (NLT)No, it’s because of your wickedness! There’s no limit to your sins.
Context of Job 22:5
3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless? 4“Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, And enters into judgment with you? Is 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. 7You have not given the weary water to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Read all of Job 22Job 22:5 word by word
הֲלֹ֣א רָעָֽתְךָ֣ רַבָּ֑ה וְאֵֽין־קֵ֝֗ץ לַעֲוֹנֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 22:5
- Job 4:7“Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?
- Job 11:14If iniquity were in your hand, and you put it far away, And would not let wickedness dwell in your tents;
- Job 15:5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- Job 21:27“Look, I know your thoughts, And the schemes with which you would wrong me.
- Job 32:3Also against his three friends his wrath was aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
- Psalms 19:12Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.
- Psalms 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me; My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; Therefore my heart fails 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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