Job 22:5
Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
In Context
4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Cross References
Job 11:6that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
Job 15:5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 21:27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
Job 32:2Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
Psalms 19:12Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
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 →