Job 22:4
Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
In Context
5Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
Cross References
Job 9:19If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?
Job 14:3And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.
Job 19:29Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
Job 34:23For he will not lay on man so much, that he should enter into iudgement with God.
Psalms 76:6At thy rebuke, O God of Iaakob, both the chariot and horse are cast a sleepe.
Psalms 130:3If thou, O Lord, straightly markest iniquities, O Lord, who shall 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 →