Job 22:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Job 22:17 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 21:14-15
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. …
Psalms 4:6
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Malachi 3:14
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Job 21:10
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Topics

Antediluvians Blasphemy Cursing God Impenitence Infidelity Materialism Profanity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-20)

Eliphaz, having endeavoured to convict Job, by setting his sins (as he thought) in order before him, here endeavours to awaken him to a sight and sense of his misery and danger by reason of sin; and this he does by comparing his case with that of the sinners of the old world; as if he had said, “Thy condition is bad now, but, unless thou repent, it will be worse, as theirs was—theirs who were over…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. Eliphaz designedly uses Job’s own words (Job 21:14, 15). do for them--They think they can do everything for themselves.