Ayub 22:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

tetapi orang yang kuat, dialah yang memiliki tanah, dan orang yang disegani, dialah yang mendudukinya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
tetapi orang yang kuat, dialah yang memiliki tanah, dan orang yang disegani, dialah yang mendudukinya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi jikalau ada orang gagah baginya juga adalah tanah itu, dan orang yang tampak besar boleh mendudukinya.

Contextual Overview

⁵ Is not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable? ⁶ For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing. ⁷ To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie. ⁸ But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in auctoritie dwelt in it. ⁹ Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken. ¹⁰ Therefore art thou compassed about with snares, & sodenly vexed with feare. ¹¹ Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee? ¹² Is not God on high in the heauen? beholde the heyght of the starres how hie they are. ¹³ Wilt thou therfore say, Tushe, howe should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude? ¹⁴ Tushe, the cloudes couer him that he may not see, and he walketh on the top of heauen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

But as: Job 29:7-17, Job 31:34, 1 Kings 21:11-15, Psalms 12:8, Micah 7:3

mighty man: Heb. man of arm

honourable: Heb. eminent, or, accepted for countenance. Job 13:8

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert

Cross-References

Genesis 18:14
Is any thing vnpossible to God? Accordyng to the tyme appoynted wyll I returne vnto thee [euen] according to the time of life: & Sara [shall] haue a sonne.

Genesis 22:19
So turned Abraham againe vnto his young men: and they rose vp, and went together to Beer seba, and Abraham dwelt at Beer seba.

Genesis 22:20
And after these thynges, one tolde Abraham, saying: beholde Milcha, she hath also borne chyldren vnto thy brother Nachor,

2 Chronicles 25:9
And Amaziahu saide to the man of God: What shal we do then for the hundred talentes which I haue geuen for the hoast of Israel? The man of God aunswered: The Lorde is able to geue thee much more then they be.

Matthew 19:26
But Iesus behelde them, and sayde vnto them: with men this is vnpossible, but with God all thynges are possible.

John 1:29
The next day, Iohn seeth Iesus comming vnto hym, and saith, beholde the lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the worlde.

John 1:36
And he behelde Iesus as he walked by, & sayth: beholde the lambe of God.

Revelation 5:6
And I behelde, and loe in the middes of the throne and of the foure beastes, and in the middes of the elders, stoode a lambe as though he had ben kylled, hauyng seuen hornes & seuen eyes, whiche are the seuen spirites of God, sent into all the worlde.

Revelation 5:12
Saying with a loude voyce: Worthy is the lambe that was kylled to receaue power, and richesse, and wisedome, and strength, and honor, and glorie, and blessyng.

Revelation 7:14
And he sayde vnto hym, Lorde thou wotest. And he sayde to me: These are they which came out of great tribulation, and haue wasshed their long robes, and made them whyte by the blood of the lambe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth,.... A large share and portion of it, which Job could not hinder him from the enjoyment of, because mightier than he, or otherwise he would have done it; or Job was content he should have what he had, and gave him more than what of right belonged to him; for when any cause came before him as a judge, or civil magistrate, between a rich man, and a poorer man, relating to a field, or piece of land he always gave the cause to the rich and mighty and so he had the land, as is suggested:

and the honourable man dwelt in it; peaceably, quietly, and undisturbed, though he had no just title to it; or "the man accepted of face" or "countenance" q, who was respected because of his outward circumstances, wealth and riches, power and authority; and so Job is tacitly charged with being a respecter of persons in judgment, which was not good; and in general these phrases denote partiality in him, that he was favourable to the mighty and powerful, and unkind and cruel to the poor and needy. Some r understand all this of Job himself, that because he was the mighty man, or "man of arms" s, he made use of his power and might, and stretched out his arm, and grasped and got into his possession, by force and violence, the houses, and lands, and estates of others, and became the greatest man in all the east, and the earth in a manner was his alone; and because he was respected for his greatness and riches, he was confirmed therein, and dwelt securely: or rather, taking the words in this sense, they may be considered as an aggravation of Job's sins, both before and after charged upon him; as that when he was the mighty and honourable man, and though he was such, and had it in the power of his hands to do a great deal of good to the poor and needy; yet took a pledge from his indigent brother, stripped those that were almost naked of their clothing, and would not give a poor weary traveller a cup of water, nor a morsel of bread to an hungry man; yea, abused his power and authority which he had, to the oppression of the widow and fatherless, as in Job 22:9.

q נשוא פנים "acceptus faciebus", Montanus; "vel facie", Vatablus, Beza, Junius & Tremellius, Drusius, Mercerus. r Jarchi, Ramban, Bar Tzemach, Sephorno. s איש זרוע "viro brachii", Pagninus, Montanus, Bolducius, Vatablus, Drusius, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But as for the mighty man - Hebrew as in the margin, “man of arm.” The “arm,” in the Scriptures, is the symbol of power; Psalms 10:15, “Break thou the arm of the wicked;” Ezekiel 30:21. “I have broken the arm of Pharaoh;” Psalms 89:13, “Thou hast a mighty arm;” Psalms 97:1, “His holy arm hath gotten him the victory.” The reason of this is, that the sword and spear were principally used in war, and success depended on the force with which they were wielded by the arm. There can be no doubt that this is intended to be applied to Job, and that the meaning is, that he had driven the poor from their possessions, and he had taken forcible occupancy of what belonged to them. The idea is, that he had done this by power, not by “right.”

Had the earth - Took possession of the land, and drove off from it those to whom it belonged, or who had an equal right to it with him.

And the honorable man - Margin, “eminent,” or “accepted of countenance.” Hebrew: “Lifted up of countenance;” that is, the man whose countenance was elevated either by honor or pride. It may be used to describe either; but, perhaps, there is more force in the former, in saying that it was the great man, the man of rank and office, who had got possession. There is, thus, some sarcasm in the severe charge: “The great man ... the man of rank, and wealth, and office, has got possession, while the humble and poor are banished.” Job had had great possessions; but this charge as to the manner in which he had acquired them seems to be wholly gratuitous. Eliphaz takes it for granted, since he was so severely punished, that it “must have been” in some such way.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 22:8. But as for the mighty man, he had the earth — איש זרוע ish zeroa, the man of arm. Finger, hand, and arm, are all emblems of strength and power. The man of arm is not only the strong man, but the man of power and influence, the man of rapine and plunder.

The honourable man — Literally, the man whose face is accepted, the respectable man, the man of wealth. Thou wert an enemy to the poor and needy, but thou didst favour and flatter the rich and great.