Job 22:5
Is not your wickedness great? and yours iniquities infinite?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
In Context
4Will he reprove you for fear of you? will he enter with you into judgment?
6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Cross References
Job 11:6And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than yours iniquity deserves.
Job 15:5For your mouth utters yours iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which all of you wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 32:2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
Psalms 19:12Who can understand his errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
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 →