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Job 22:5
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Eliphaz confronts Job directly, demanding accountability for alleged moral failures during a period of intense suffering and divine silence. The words — The Hebrew רָעָתֶךָ רַבָּה (ra'atekha rabbah) translates literally to "great is your wickedness," paired with אֵין קֵץ לַעֲוֹנֹתֶיךָ ('ein qetz la'avonotekha), meaning "no end to your iniquities." The thread — This claim of boundless transgression parallels Psalms 40:12, while standing apart from Job 15:5, which addresses crafty speech, and Job 4:7, which questions the fate of the blameless. Why it lands — The text presents a direct accusation that requires the reader to separate defensive piety from actual conduct, demanding an unvarnished accounting of one's actions.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Cross-references
- Job 15:5 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Psalms 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.
- Job 4:7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- Job 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.
- Job 11:14 if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
- Job 15:31 Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
- Job 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 32:3 and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
- Psalms 19:12 Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.