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Job 22:17 KJV
Job · chapter 22 · verse 17
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?Job 22:17 · King James Version
Job 22:17 in context
15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- AlmightyShaddaythe AlmightyH7706 →
- Departçûwrto turn offH5493 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- GodʼêlstrengthH410 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-20