Job 22:4
Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
In Context
3Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
Cross References
Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him ?
Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
Job 19:29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
Job 34:23For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
Psalms 76:6At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned.
Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
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 →