Job 22:5

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
wickedness	רָעָֽתְךָ֣ ra.'a.te.Kha	H7451	bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
great	רַבָּ֑ה ra.Bah	H7227	abundant (in quantity · adjective, feminine singular absolute
iniquities	לַעֲוֹנֹתֶֽיךָ la.'a.vo.no.Tei.kha	H5771	perversity · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
infinite	קֵ֝֗ץ Ketz	H7093	an extremity · noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Job 15:5-6 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Psalms 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than…
Job 4:7-11 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Job 11:6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than…
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Job 15:31-34 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
Job 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 22:5-14

Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeachment against him, until Eliphaz did so here, where he positively and expressly charges him with many high crimes and misdemeanours, which, if he had really been guilty of them, might well have justified them in their harsh censures of him. "Come," says Eliphaz, "we have been too long beating about the bush, too tender of Job and afraid of grieving him, which has but confirmed him in his self-justification. It is high time to deal plainly with him. We have condemned him by parables, but that does not answer the end; he is…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 22:5

Heretofore Eliphaz had only insinuated, now he plainly asserts Job's guilt, merely on the ground of his sufferings.

John Gill on Job 22:5

Is not thy wickedness great?.... It must be owned it is, it cannot be denied. Indeed, the wickedness of every man's heart is great, it being desperately wicked, full of sin, abounding with it; out of it comes forth everything that is bad, and the wickedness of actions is very great: some sins are indeed greater than others, as those against God, and the first table of the law, are greater than those against men, or the second table; some are like crimson and scarlet, are beams in the eye, while others are comparatively as motes; yet all are great, as committed against God, and as they are breaches of his law; and especially they appear so to sensible sinners, to whom sin is made exceeding si…

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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

Is it not for thy wickedness that is great, and thine iniquities that are infinite? Observe how from a deadened heart he came to idle words, and from idle words in the heinousness of lying he blazed out into insults. For these are the descents of increasing sin, that the tongue when not restrained should never there where it has fallen lie still, but be always descending to what is worse; but these things that are subjoined, because they are very plain taken after the history, do not need to be set forth after the letter. But whereas we have said that the friends of blessed Job bear the likeness of heretics, but that he himself bears the representing of Holy Church, the words of Eliphaz how they fit the falseness of heretics, let us now at once point out.
— Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI

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Dictionary and topics

Man · INSIGNIFI — INSIGNIFI
Sin · .Sinfulness of — .Sinfulness of
Widow · 10:18;14:28,29;16:11-14;24:17,19-21;25:5-10;27:19; — 10:18;14:28,29;16:11-14;24:17,19-21;25:5-10;27:19;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Job 22:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 22:5-14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 22:5

John Gill on Job 22:5

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 22:1-5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Job 22:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 22:5-14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 22:5

John Gill on Job 22:5

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 22:5