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Job 22:27
Job 22:27
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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Job 22 — OverviewJob 22 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleEliphaz here leads on a third attack upon poor Job, in which Bildad
followed him, but Zophar drew back, and quitted the field. It was one
of the unhappinesses of Job, as it is of many an honest man, to be…Job 22 — OverviewJob 22 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 22:1, Eliphaz shews that man’s goodness profits not God; Job 22:5, He accuses Job of divers sins; Job 22:21, He exhorts him to repentance, with promises of mercy.Job 22 — OverviewJob 22 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter contains the third and last reply of Eliphaz to Job, in which he charges him with having too high an opinion of himself, of his holiness and righteousness, as if God was profited by it, and laid thereby…Job 22:1-30Job 22:1-30 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITIONJob 22:1-30Job 22:1-30 · The Pulpit CommentaryEliphaz returns to the attack, but with observations that are at first strangely pointless and irrelevant, e.g. on the unprofitableness of man to God (verses l, 2), and on the slight importance of Job's case (verse 3).…Job 22:1-30Job 22:1-30 · The Pulpit CommentaryCensorious and uncharitable reasoning.
Eliphaz again takes up the word. He does not contest Job's position, that life presents many examples of the prosperity of the godless, and of the calamities of the godly, but he…
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