Job 22:5

Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable?

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

In Context

4Will you maintain and plead your own cause? and will he enter into judgment with you?

6And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.

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Cross References

Job 11:6Then shall he declare to you the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with you: and then shall you know, that a just recompence of your sins has come to you from the Lord.

Job 15:5You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the mighty.

Job 21:27So I know you, that you⌃ presumptuously attack me:

Job 32:2Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.

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 →

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