Job 22:5

King James Version

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Isn’t your wickedness abundantand aren’t your iniquities endless?

Hebrew Names Version
Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

English Standard Version
Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.

New Century Version
No! It is because your evil is without limits and your sins have no end.

New English Translation
Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?

Amplified Bible
"Is not your wickedness great, And your sins without end?

New American Standard Bible
"Is your wickedness not abundant, And is there no end to your guilty deeds?

World English Bible
Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?

Legacy Standard Bible
Is not your evil great,And your iniquities without end?

Berean Standard Bible
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

Contemporary English Version
No! It's because of your terrible sins.

Complete Jewish Bible
Isn't it because your wickedness is great? Aren't your iniquities endless?

Darby Translation
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?

Easy-to-Read Version
No, it is because you sin so much. You never stop sinning.

George Lamsa Translation
Behold, your wickedness is great, and there is no end to your sins.

Good News Translation
No, it's because you have sinned so much; it's because of all the evil you do.

Lexham English Bible
Is not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities?

Literal Translation
Is not your wickedness great, and is there no end to your iniquities?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Cometh not this for ye greate wickednesse, & for thine vngracious dedes which are innumerable?

American Standard Version
Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

Bible in Basic English
Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Is not thy wickedness great? And are not thine iniquities without end?

King James Version (1611)
Is not thy wickednesse great? and thine iniquities infinite?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Is not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Is not thy wickedness abundant, and thy sins innumerable?

English Revised Version
Is not thy wickedness great? neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee?

Update Bible Version
Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

Webster's Bible Translation
[Is] not thy wickedness great? and thy iniquities infinite?

New King James Version
Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquity without end?

New Living Translation
No, it's because of your wickedness! There's no limit to your sins.

New Life Bible
Have you not done much wrong and your sins have no end?

New Revised Standard
Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Is not, thy wickedness, great? and, without end, are not thine iniquities?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?

Revised Standard Version
Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.

Young's Literal Translation
Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquities without end?

Contextual Overview

⁵ Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? ⁶ For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. ⁸ But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. ⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. ¹⁰ Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; ¹¹ Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. ¹² Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! ¹³ And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? ¹⁴ Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

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

Cross-References

Hebrews 11:19
Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before 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 αναριθμητοι, Sept. o אין קץ לעונותיך "non est finis iniquitatibus tuis", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Is not thy wickedness great? - That is, “Is it not utter presumption and folly for a man, whose wickedness is undoubtedly so great, to presume to enter into a litigation with God?” Eliphaz here “assumes” 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 “proof” that he had, so far as appears, was, that Job had been afflicted as they maintained great sinners “would be,” 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 “must have been” 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 “And there is no end to thine iniquities,” that is, they are without number. This does not mean that sin is an “infinite evil,” 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 “infinite;” 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 “an infinite evil;” 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, אין קץ ein kets.