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A Sarcastic Accusation
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that Eliphaz is using biting sarcasm. He quotes Job's own words from a previous chapter ('the counsel of the wicked is far from me') to mock him. Eliphaz's point is to accuse Job of secretly defending the wicked, despite his pious-sounding claims to the contrary.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 22:18
18th Century
Theologian
Yet he filled their houses with good things - This is undoubtedly a biting sarcasm. Job had maintained that such people were prospe…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 22:18
19th Century
Bishop
Yet he filled their houses. —The bitterness of his irony now reaches its climax because he adopts the very formula of rep…
John Gill
On Job 22:18
17th Century
Pastor
Yet he filled their houses with good [things]
With temporal good things, with this world's good, with plenty of prov…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 22:15–20
17th Century
Minister
Eliphaz wanted Job to mark the old way that wicked men have walked, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, so that we…