Job 22:4

Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
reprove	יֹכִיחֶ֑ךָ yo.khi.Che.kha	H3198	to be right (i.e. correct) · verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
fear	הֲֽ֭מִיִּרְאָ֣תְךָ ha.mi.yir.'A.te.kha	H3374	fear (also used as infinitive) · interrogative particle + preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
enter	יָב֥וֹא ya.Vo'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
judgment	בַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט ba.mish.Pat	H4941	properly · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Job 14:3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Psalms 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Isaiah 3:14-15 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of…
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Job 9:19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
Job 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Job 16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

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Commentary

Matthew Henry 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. That when God does us good it is not because he is indebted to us; if he were, there might be some colour to say, when he afflicts us, "He does not deal fairly with us." But whoever pretends that he has by any meritorious action made God his debtor, let him prove this debt, and he shall be sure not to lose it, Rom 11:35. Who has given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again? But Eliphaz here show…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 22:4

Is the punishment inflicted on thee from fear of thee, in order to disarm thee? as Job had implied (see on Job 7:12; Job 7:20; and Job 10:17). will he enter . . . into judgment?-- Job had desired this (Job 13:3, Job 13:21). He ought rather to have spoken as in Psa 143:2.

John Gill on Job 22:4

Will he reprove thee for fear of thee?.... That is, chastise, correct, and afflict, for fear that hurt should be done unto him; no, he will not; for as the goodness of men does not profit him, the sinfulness of men does not hurt him, see Job 35:6. Kings and civil magistrates sometimes chastise offenders, not only to do justice to them, but through fear of them, lest, if spared or connived at, they should be hurtful to the state, and overturn it; but though sin is an act of hostility against God, and strikes at his being and government, yet he is in no fear of being ruined or dethroned, or of having his government taken out of his hands, and therefore does not chastise men on that account: or…

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Keil & Delitzsch on 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? The verb סכן, in the signification to be profitable, is peculiar to the book of Job (although also סכן and סכנת elsewhere, according to its primary signification, does not differ from מועיל, מועילה, by which it is explained by Kimchi); the correct development of the notion of this verb is to be perceived from the Hiph., which o…

The Church Fathers

"And let him go into judgment with you. For you to compare him.
— Augustine of Hippo, ANNOTATIONS ON THE BOOK OF JOB (tr. J. Litteral, draft)

Will He reprove thee for fear of thee? Will He enter with thee into judgment? Who that was out of his senses even would think this, that from fear the Lord reproves us, and from dread sets His judgment against us? But they who do not know how to mete their words, doubtless slip down to idle discourse. Wherein if they never at all take themselves to task, without delay they leap forth to words mischievous and insulting.
— Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI

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Dictionary and topics

Man · INSIGNIFI — INSIGNIFI

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Job 22:4

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 22:1-4

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 22:4

John Gill on Job 22:4

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 22:1-5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Job 22:4

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 22:1-4

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 22:4

John Gill on Job 22:4

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 22:1-5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Job 22:2-3

Rashi on Job 22:4