Job 22:5
Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
In Context
4Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
Cross References
Job 11:6That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.
Job 15:5For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
Job 32:2Then the wrath of Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the familie of Ram, was kindled: his wrath, I say, was kindled against Iob, because he iustified himselfe more then God.
Psalms 19:12Who can vnderstand his faultes? clense me from secret fautes.
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 →