He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
Methinks I can almost forgive Eliphaz his hard censures of Job, which we had in the beginning of the chapter, though they were very unjust and unkind, for this good counsel and encouragement which he gives him in these verses with which he closes his discourse, and than which nothing could be better said, nor more to the purpose.
Commenting on Job 22:21-30
island--that is, "dwelling." But the Hebrew expresses the negative (Sa1 4:21); translate "Thus He (God) shall deliver him who was not guiltless," namely, one, who like Job himself on conversion shall be saved, but not because he was, as Job so constantly affirms of himself, guiltless, but because he humbles himself (Job 22:29); an oblique attack on Job, even to the last.
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. (x) God will deliver a whole country from peril, even for the just man's sake.