Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?
Eliphaz, having endeavoured to convict Job, by setting his sins (as he thought) in order before him, here endeavours to awaken him to a sight and sense of his misery and danger by reason of sin; and this he does by comparing his case with that of the sinners of the old world; as if he had said, "Thy condition is bad now, but, unless...
Commenting on Job 22:15-20
Which were cut down out of time,.... Sent out of time into eternity, time being no more with men, and they no longer in time, when death seizes upon them; or "before time" (a), before the common term of life, which, according to the course of nature, and human probability, they might have arrived unto: as this is spoken of the men of the old...
marked--Rather, Dost thou keep to? that is, wish to follow (so Hebrew, Sa2 22:22). If so, beware of sharing their end. the old way--the degenerate ways of the world before the flood (Gen 6:5).