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Job 22:4
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Is it for your piety that he reproves you, That he enters with you into judgment?
Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
Does God punish you for respecting him? Does he bring you into court for this?
Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?
"Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, That He enters into judgment against you?
"Is it because of your reverence that He punishes you, That He enters into judgment against you?
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, That he enters with you into judgment?
Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
Is it because of your reverent fear that He reproves you,That He enters into judgment against you?
Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
Is he correcting you for worshiping him?
"Is he rebuking you because you fear him? Is this why he enters into judgment with you?
Will he reason with thee for fear of thee? Will he enter with thee into judgment?
Why does God blame and punish you? Is it because you worship him?
He will reprove you, and enter into judgment with you.
It is not because you stand in awe of God that he reprimands you and brings you to trial.
Does he reprove you because of your reverence or enter into judgment with you?
Will He reprove you because of your reverence, or enter into judgment with you?
Is he afrayed to reproue the, & to steppe forth wt the in to iudgment?
Is it for thy fear of him that he reproveth thee, That he entereth with thee into judgment?
Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?
Is it for thy fear of Him that He reproveth thee, that He entereth with thee into judgment?
Will hee reproue thee for feare of thee? will he enter with thee into iudgment?
Is he afrayde to reproue thee, and to step foorth with thee into iudgement?
Wilt thou maintain and plead thine own cause? and will he enter into judgment with thee?
Is it for thy fear of him that he reproveth thee, that he entereth with thee into judgment?
Whether he schal drede, and schal repreue thee, and schal come with thee in to doom,
Is it for your fear [of him] that he reproves you, That he enters with you into judgment?
Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
"Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, And enters into judgment with you?
Is it because you're so pious that he accuses you and brings judgment against you?
Is it because of how you honor God that He speaks strong words to you and punishes you?
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?
Is it, for thy reverence, that he will accuse thee? will enter with thee into judgment?
Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?
Because of thy reverence Doth He reason [with] thee? He entereth with thee into judgment:
"Is it because of your reverence that He reproves you, That He enters into judgment against you?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
reprove: Psalms 39:11, Psalms 76:6, Psalms 80:16, Revelation 3:19
for fear: Job 7:12
will he enter: Job 9:19, Job 9:32, Job 14:3, Job 16:21, Job 23:6, Job 23:7, Job 34:23, Psalms 130:3, Psalms 130:4, Psalms 143:2, Ecclesiastes 12:14, Isaiah 3:14, Isaiah 3:15
Cross-References
They answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.”
Then Moses led Israel on from the Red Sea, and they went out to the Wilderness of Shur. They journeyed for three days in the wilderness without finding water.
and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
He said to the people, “Be prepared by the third day. Do not have sexual relations with women.”
But what remains of the sacrificial meat by the third day must be burned.
They set out from the mountain of the Lord on a three-day journey with the ark of the Lord’s covenant traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
He is to purify himself with the water on the third day and the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.
“The one who is clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being purified must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be clean by evening.
“You are to remain outside the camp for seven days. All of you and your prisoners who have killed a person or touched the dead are to purify yourselves on the third day and the seventh day.
“Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get provisions ready for yourselves, for within three days you will be crossing the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you to inherit.’”
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 "for thy fear" m, for thy fear of God, thy piety; or "for thy religion", as Mr. Broughton translates the word. Job had often suggested that good men, such that truly feared God, are afflicted by him, and therefore his own afflictions were no objection to his character, as a man that feared God, and eschewed evil, Job 1:1; and in this sense Eliphaz uses the word, Job 4:6; and here he intimates, as if, according to the notion of Job, that God afflicted him, and other good men, because they feared him, and which he observes, as a great absurdity; whereas, on the contrary, he chastised him for his sins, as Job 22:5 shows; but though God does not afflict men for their goodness, but for sins, yet they are only such that fear him, and whom he loves, that he chastises in a fatherly way, see Hebrews 12:6;
will he enter with thee into judgment? that is, will he, in reverence to thee, out of respect to so great a person (speaking ironically), in condescension to one of so much consequence, will he regard thy request, so often made, as to come into judgment with thee, and to admit of thy cause being pleaded before him, and to give the hearing of it, and decide the affair in controversy? or rather, will he not plead against thee, and condemn thee for thy sins, as follow? in this sense it is to be deprecated, and not desired, see Psalms 143:2.
m ×××ר××ª× "an de religione tua", Junius Tremellius "ob timorem tuum", so some in Drusius; "num ob pietatem tuam", others in Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? - Or, rather, will he come into trial, and argue his cause before a tribunal, because he is afraid that his character will suffer, or because he feels himself bound to appear, and answer to the charges which may be brought? The language is all taken from courts of justice, and the object is, to reprove Job as if he felt that it was necessary that God should appear and answer to what he alleged against him.
Will he enter with thee into judgment? - Will he condescend to enter on a trial with one like thee? Will he submit his cause to a trial with man, as if he were an equal, or as if man had any right to such an investigation? It is to be remembered, that Job had repeatedly expressed a desire to carry his cause before God, and that God would meet him as an equal, and not take advantage of his majesty and power to overwhelm him; see Job 13:3, note; Job 13:20-21, notes. Eliphaz here asks, whether God could be expected to meet âa man,â one of his own creatures, in this manner, and to go into a trial of the cause. He says that God was supreme; that no one could bring him into court; and that he could not be restrained from doing his pleasure by any dread of man. These sentiments are all noble and correct, and worthy of a sage. Soon, however, he changes the style, and utters the language of severe reproach, because Job had presumed to make such a suggestion. Perhaps, also, in this verse, a special emphasis should be placed on âthee.â âWill God enter into trial with thee ... a man whose wickedness is so great, and whose sin is infinite?â Job 22:4-5.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 22:4. For fear of thee? — Is it because he is afraid that thou wilt do him some injury, that he has stripped thee of thy power and wealth?
