Job 22:5
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
In Context
4Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
Cross References
Job 11:6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
Job 15:5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Job 32:2This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
Psalms 19:12Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden 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 →