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Job 22:4
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Does he correct you and take you to courtbecause of your piety?
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?
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
Then Aaron and Moses said, "The God of the Hebrews has talked with us. So we beg you to let us travel three days into the desert. There we will offer a sacrifice to the Lord our God. If we don't do this, he might become angry and destroy us. He might make us die from sickness or war."
Moses led the Israelites away from the Red Sea and into the desert of Shur. They traveled for three days in the desert. They could not find any water.
and be ready for me on the third day. On the third day, the Lord will come down to Mount Sinai. And all the people will see me.
Then Moses said to the people, "Be ready for the meeting with God in three days. Until that time do not have sexual relations."
If any meat from this sacrifice is still left over on the third day, it must be burned in the fire.
So they began traveling from the mountain of the Lord . The priests took the Box of the Lord 's Agreement and walked in front of the people. They carried the Holy Box for three days, looking for a place to camp.
They must wash themselves with the special water on the third day and again on the seventh day. If they don't do this, they will remain unclean.
"Then that clean person must sprinkle this water on you on the third day and again on the seventh day. On the seventh day you will become clean. You must wash your clothes in water and you will become clean in the evening.
And then, all you men who killed other people must stay outside the camp for seven days. You must stay outside the camp even if you just touched a dead body. On the third day you and your prisoners must make yourselves pure. You must do the same thing again on the seventh day.
"Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get some food ready. Three days from now we will go across the Jordan River and take the land that the Lord our God is giving us.'"
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 המיראתך "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 “a man,” 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 “thee.” “Will God enter into trial with thee ... a man whose wickedness is so great, and whose sin is infinite?” 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?
