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Job 22:5
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Isn’t your wickedness abundantand aren’t your iniquities endless?
Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.
No! It is because your evil is without limits and your sins have no end.
Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?
"Is not your wickedness great, And your sins without end?
"Is your wickedness not abundant, And is there no end to your guilty deeds?
Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
Is not your evil great,And your iniquities without end?
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
Isn't it because your wickedness is great? Aren't your iniquities endless?
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?
No, it is because you sin so much. You never stop sinning.
Behold, your wickedness is great, and there is no end to your sins.
No, it's because you have sinned so much; it's because of all the evil you do.
Is not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities?
Is not your wickedness great, and is there no end to your iniquities?
Cometh not this for ye greate wickednesse, & for thine vngracious dedes which are innumerable?
Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.
Is not thy wickedness great? And are not thine iniquities without end?
Is not thy wickednesse great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Is not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable?
Is not thy wickedness abundant, and thy sins innumerable?
Is not thy wickedness great? neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee?
Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
[Is] not thy wickedness great? and thy iniquities infinite?
Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquity without end?
No, it's because of your wickedness! There's no limit to your sins.
Have you not done much wrong and your sins have no end?
Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.
Is not, thy wickedness, great? and, without end, are not thine iniquities?
And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?
Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.
Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.
"Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquities without end?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
not thy: Job 4:7-11, Job 11:14, Job 15:5, Job 15:6, Job 15:31-34, Job 21:27, Job 32:3
thine: Psalms 19:12, Psalms 40:12
Reciprocal: Job 7:20 - I have sinned Job 9:29 - General Job 13:23 - many Job 15:34 - the tabernacles Job 16:17 - Not for Job 29:12 - I delivered Job 33:32 - General Isaiah 32:6 - empty Isaiah 54:17 - every Luke 13:2 - Suppose John 9:3 - Neither
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because he was sure that God could raise people to life. This was just like getting Isaac back from death.
Such a large crowd of witnesses is all around us! So we must get rid of everything that slows us down, especially the sin that just won't let go. And we must be determined to run the race that is ahead of us.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Is not thy wickedness great?.... It must be owned it is, it cannot be denied. Indeed, the wickedness of every man's heart is great, it being desperately wicked, full of sin, abounding with it; out of it comes forth everything that is bad, and the wickedness of actions is very great: some sins are indeed greater than others, as those against God, and the first table of the law, are greater than those against men, or the second table; some are like crimson and scarlet, are beams in the eye, while others are comparatively as motes; yet all are great, as committed against God, and as they are breaches of his law; and especially they appear so to sensible sinners, to whom sin is made exceeding sinful; and they see and own themselves to be the chief of sinners, and as such entreat for pardon on that account, see Psalms 25:11;
and thine iniquities infinite? strictly speaking, nothing is infinite but God; sins may be said in some sense to be infinite, because committed against an infinite God, and cannot be satisfied for by a finite creature, or by finite sufferings, only through the infinite value of the blood of Christ; here it signifies, that his iniquities were "innumerable" n, as some versions, they were not to be reckoned up, they were so many; or, more literally, there is "no end of thine iniquities" o, there is no summing of them up; and it may denote his continuance in them; Eliphaz suggests as if Job lived in sin, and allowed himself in it, and was going on in a course of iniquity without end, which was very uncharitable; here he charges him in a general way, and next he descends to particulars.
n αναÏιθμηÏοι, Sept. o ××× ×§×¥ ××¢×× ×ת×× "non est finis iniquitatibus tuis", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Is not thy wickedness great? - That is, âIs it not utter presumption and folly for a man, whose wickedness is undoubtedly so great, to presume to enter into a litigation with God?â Eliphaz here âassumesâ it as an undeniable proposition, that Job was a great sinner. This charge had not been directly made before. He and his friends had argued evidently on that supposition, and had maintained that one who was a great sinner would be punished in this life for it, and they had left it to be implied, in no doubtful manner, that they so regarded Job. But the charge had not been before so openly made. Here Eliphaz argues as if that were a point that could not be disputed. The only âproofâ that he had, so far as appears, was, that Job had been afflicted as they maintained great sinners âwould be,â and they, therefore, concluded that he must be such. No facts are referred to, except that he was a great sufferer, and yet, on the ground of this, he proceeds to take for granted that he âmust have beenâ a man who had taken a pledge for no cause; had refused to give water to the thirsty; had been an oppressor, etc.
And thine iniquities infinite? - Hebrew âAnd there is no end to thine iniquities,â that is, they are without number. This does not mean that sin is an âinfinite evil,â or that his sins were infinite in degree; but that if one should attempt to reckon up the number of his transgressions, there would be no end to them. This, I believe, is the only place in the Bible where sin is spoken of, in any respect, as âinfinite;â and this cannot be used as a proof text, to show that sin is an infinite evil, for:
(1) that is not the meaning of the passage even with respect to Job;
(2) it makes no affirmation respecting sin in general; and
(3) it was untrue, even in regard to Job, and in the sense in which Zophar meant to use the phrase.
There is no intelligible sense in which it can be said that sin is âan infinite evil;â and no argument should be based on such a declaration, to prove that sin demanded an infinite atonement, or that it deserves eternal sufferings. Those doctrines can be defended on solid grounds - they should not be made to rest on a false assumption, or on a false interpretation of the Scriptures.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 22:5. Is not thy wickedness great? — Thy sins are not only many, but they are great; and of thy continuance in them there is no end, ××× ×§×¥ ein kets.
