the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Job 22:13
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But you reply, ‘That's why God can't see what I am doing! How can he judge through the thick darkness?
And thou sayest, What doth God know? can he judge through the thick darkness?
And you say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
But you ask, ‘What does God know? Can he judge us through the dark clouds?
But you have said, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
"You say, 'What does God know [about me]? Can He judge through the thick darkness?
But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
And thou seist, What sotheli knowith God? and, He demeth as bi derknesse.
Yet you say: 'What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
Do you think the deep darkness hides you from God?
And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?
Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Can he see through thick darkness to judge?
And thou sayest, What doth God know? will he judge through the dark cloud?
But you might say, ‘What does God know? Can he see through the dark clouds to judge us?
And thou sayest: 'What doth God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
So you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the darkness?
Therefore you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
And yet you say, How does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
And yet you ask, "What does God know? He is hidden by clouds—how can he judge us?"
Wilt thou say then, What doth GOD know? Out through a thick cloud, can he judge?
And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
Therefore you say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
Wilt thou therfore say, Tushe, howe should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
And thou has said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark?
Yet you say, “What does God know?Can he judge through total darkness?
You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
And you ask, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom?
And you say, What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?
And thou hast said, `What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?
wilt thou therfore saye: Tush, how shulde God knowe? Doth his dominion reach beyonde the cloudes?
"But you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through the thick darkness?
And you say, "What does God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?
"You say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through the thick darkness?
You say, ‘What does God know?Can He judge through the dense gloom?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
How: or, What
doth God know: Psalms 10:11, Psalms 59:7, Psalms 73:11, Psalms 94:7-9, Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 9:9, Zephaniah 1:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 4:9 - I know Exodus 14:24 - and troubled 2 Chronicles 18:12 - Behold Job 11:11 - he seeth Job 24:15 - No eye Psalms 14:1 - no Isaiah 29:15 - seek Isaiah 47:10 - thou hast said Jeremiah 23:24 - hide Acts 5:3 - lie to 1 Corinthians 15:35 - How
Cross-References
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And thou sayest, how doth God know?.... What is done on earth, the works of the children of men, their sinful actions, when he dwells at such a distance, and so remote from the earth, as the height of the stars, and highest heavens, be; not that Job said this expressly with his lips, but in his heart; Eliphaz imagined and supposed that such was the reasoning of his mind; it was an invidious consequence he had drawn from what Job had said concerning the afflictions of the godly, and the prosperity of the wicked; which he interpreted as a denial of the providence of God, as if he had no regard to human affairs, but things took place in a very disorderly and confused way, without any regard to right or wrong; and he concluded that Job was led into these sentiments by the consideration of the distance of God from the earth; that, dwelling in the highest heavens, he could not and did not see what was done here, and therefore men might commit all manner of sin with impunity; that their sins would never be taken notice of, or they be called to an account for them; which are the very language and sentiments of the most abandoned of men, see Psalms 10:11;
can he judge through the dark clouds? if he cannot see and know what is done, he cannot judge of it, whether it is good or bad, and so can neither justify nor condemn an action. By "the dark cloud" is not meant the matter, or corporeal mass, with which man is covered, as a Jewish commentator x interprets it; rather the cloudy air, or atmosphere around us; or that thick darkness in which Jehovah dwells, clouds and darkness being around him, Psalms 97:2; but all this hinders not his sight of things done here below; what is thick darkness to us is pure light to him, in which also he is said to dwell, and with which he covers himself as with a garment; and the darkness and the light are both alike to him, he can see and judge through the one as well as the other.
x Peritzol.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And thou sayest, How doth God know? - That is, it âfollowsâ from what you have said; or the opinion which you have advanced is âthe sameâ as if you had affirmed this. How common it is to charge a man with holding what we âinfer,â from something which he has advanced, he must hold, and then to proceed to argue âas ifâ he actually held that. The philosophy of this is plain. He advances a certain opinion. âWeâ infer at once that he can hold that only on certain grounds, or that if he holds that he must hold something else also. We can see that if âweâ held that opinion, we should also, for the sake of consistency, be compelled to hold something which seems to follow from it, and we cannot see how this can be avoided, and we at once charge him with holding it. But the truth may be, that âheâ has not seen that such consequences follow, or that he has some other way of accounting for the fact than we have; or that he may hold to the fact and yet deny wholly the consequences which legitimately follow from it. Now we have a right to show him âby argumentâ that his opinions, if he would follow them out, would lead to dangerous consequences, but we have a right to charge him with holding only what he âprofessesâ to hold. He is not answerable for our inferences; and we have no right to charge them on him as being his real opinions. Every man has a right to avow what he actually believes, and to be regarded as holding that, and that only.
How doth God know? - That is, How can one so exalted see what is done on the distant earth, and reward and punish people according to their deserts? This opinion was actually held by many of the ancients. It was supposed that the supreme God did not condescend to attend to the affairs of mortals, but had committed the government of the earth to inferior beings. This was the foundation of the Gnostic philosophy, which prevailed so much in the East in the early ages of the Christian church. Milton puts a similar sentiment into the mouth of Eve in her reflections after she had eaten the forbidden fruit:
And I, perhaps, am secret: heaven is high,
High and remote from thence to see distinct
Each thing on earth; and other care perhaps
May have diverted from continual watch
Our great Forbidder, safe with all his spies about him.
Paradise Lost, B. ix.
Can he judge through the dark cloud? - Can he look down through the clouds which interpose between man and him? Eliphaz could not see how Job could maintain his opinions without holding that this was impossible for God. He could see no other reason why God did not punish the wicked than because âhe did not see them,â and he, therefore, charges this opinion on Job.
