Job 22:5
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
In Context
4Will he reason with thee for fear of thee? Will he enter with thee into judgment?
6For thou hast taken a pledge of thy brother for nought, and stripped off the clothing of the naked.
Cross References
Job 11:6And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that God passeth by [much] of thine iniquity!
Job 15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Job 21:27Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 32:2Then was kindled the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his anger kindled, because he justified himself rather than God;
Psalms 19:12Who understandeth [his] errors? Purify me from secret [faults].
Matthew Henry on Job 22:2-5
Third Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect? 4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? Eliphaz here insinuates that, because Job complained so much of his afflictions, he thought God was unjust in afflicting him; but it was a… Read the whole commentary →