Job 22:5
3 Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
4 Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
6 For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
7 You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
- KJV
- Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
- WEB
- Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
- ASV
- Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
- DARBY
- Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?
- BLB
- Is not your evil great, and your iniquity without end?
- ÅB
- Er ikke din ondskap stor og dine misgjerninger uten ende?
- OTB
- Er ikke din ondskap stor,
og er ikke dine misgjerninger uten ende? - B1930
- Er ikke din ondskap stor og dine misgjerninger uten ende?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 15:5–6
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Read in contextPsalms 40:12
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
Read in contextJob 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Read in contextJob 11:14
if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
Read in contextPsalms 19:12
Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
Read in contextJob 4:7–11
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Read in contextJob 11:6
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
Read in contextJob 15:31–34
Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
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