Job 22:13
And you have said, How has God known? Does He judge through thickness?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
In Context
12Is God not high [in] the heavens? And see the summit of the stars, || That they are high.
Cross References
Job 34:22There is no darkness nor death-shade, || For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
Psalms 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouths, || Swords [are] in their lips, for “Who hears?”
Psalms 73:11And they have said, “How has God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?”
Psalms 139:7To where do I go from Your Spirit? And to where do I flee from Your face?
Jeremiah 23:24Is anyone hidden in secret places, || And I do not see him?” A declaration of YHWH, “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” A declaration of YHWH.
Ezekiel 9:9And He says to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] very, very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city has been full of perverseness, for they have said: YHWH has forsaken the land, and YHWH is not seeing.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:6-15
Job Accused of Various Crimes. ( b. c. 1520.) 5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? 6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 10 Therefore snares are round about thee,… Read the whole commentary →