Job 22:5
Is your wickedness not abundant? And there is no end to your iniquities.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
In Context
4Because of your reverence || Does He reason [with] you? He enters with you into judgment:
6For you take a pledge of your brother for nothing, || And you strip off the garments of the naked.
Cross References
Job 11:6And declares to you secrets of wisdom, for counsel has foldings. And know that God forgets of your iniquity for you.
Job 15:5For your mouth teaches your iniquity, || And you choose the tongue of the cunning.
Job 21:27Behold, I have known your thoughts, || And the schemes against me you do wrongfully.
Job 32:2and the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite burns, of the family of Ram; his anger has burned against Job, because of his justifying himself more than God;
Psalms 19:12[His] errors—who understands? Declare me innocent from hidden ones,
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 →