Job 22:1 (BSB)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Commentary on Job 22:1
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 22:1-4: Eliphaz here insinuates that, because Job complained so much of his afflictions, he thought God was unjust in afflicting him; but it was a strained innuendo. Job was far from thinking so. What Eliphaz says here is therefore unjustly applied to Job, but in itself it is very true and good, I.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 22:1: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said. As Eliphaz was the first that entered the discussion with Job, being perhaps the oldest man, and might be reckoned the wisest, so he gives the lead in every course of disputation; and here, instead of replying to Job's arguments and instances, at which he was very angry, betakes himself to calumny and reproach, and to draw invidious...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 22:1: How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? (u) Saying that the just in this world have prosperity and the wicked adversity.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 22:1-5: Job 22:1-5 1 Then began Eliphaz the Temanite, and said: 2 Is a man profitable unto God? No, indeed! the intelligent man is profitable to himself. 3 Hath the Almighty any profit if thou art righteous, Or gain if thou strivest to walk uprightly? 4 Will He reprove thee for thy fear of God, Will He go with thee into judgment? 5 Is not thy wickedness great, Thine iniquities infinite?