Job 22
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 22, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job 22:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? {as he...: or, if he may be profitable, doth his good success depend thereon?}
Job 22:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Is it} any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or {is it} gain {to him}, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Job 22:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
Job 22:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Is} not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Job 22:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. {the naked...: Heb. the clothes of the naked}
Job 22:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Job 22:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But {as for} the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. {mighty...: Heb. man of arm} {honourable...: Heb. eminent, or, accepted for countenance}
Job 22:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 22:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore snares {are} round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Job 22:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Or darkness, {that} thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Job 22:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Is} not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! {height of the stars: Heb. head of the stars}
Job 22:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? {How: or, What}
Job 22:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thick clouds {are} a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Job 22:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job 22:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: {whose...: Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation}
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Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? {for: or, to}
Job 22:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yet he filled their houses with good {things}: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 22:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The righteous see {it}, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Job 22:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. {substance: or, estate} {the remnant...: or, their excellency}
Job 22:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. {him: that is, God}
Job 22:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Job 22:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Job 22:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the {gold} of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. {as dust: or, on the dust}
Job 22:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. {defence: or, gold} {plenty...: Heb. silver of strength}
Job 22:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
Job 22:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Job 22:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Job 22:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When {men} are cast down, then thou shalt say, {There is} lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. {the humble...: Heb. him that hath low eyes}
Job 22:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. {He shall...: or, The innocent shall deliver the island}
Job 22:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.