Job 22:4
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
In Context
5Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
Cross References
Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
Job 14:3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Job 19:29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
Job 34:23For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
Psalms 76:6At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Psalms 130:3If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
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 →