Job 22:5
No: it's because you're so wicked! Your sins are never-ending!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
In Context
4Does he correct you and bring charges against you because of your reverence?
Cross References
Job 11:6because then he would explain to you the secrets of wisdom. True wisdom has many sides to it. God's treatment of you is far better than your guilt deserves.
Job 15:5It's your sins that are doing the talking, and you are choosing deceptive words.
Job 21:27Look, I know what you're thinking, and your schemes to do me wrong.
Job 32:2Then Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, grew angry. He was angry with Job for claiming he was right rather than God.
Psalms 19:12Who's aware of their own mistakes? Don't punish me for these faults I'm unaware of.
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 →