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A Misapplied Truth
Commentators like Matthew Henry and Charles Ellicott highlight a critical flaw in Eliphaz's counsel. While the principle 'return to God and be restored' is good, Eliphaz wrongly assumes Job is a wicked man who has abandoned God. This serves as a powerful warning against slandering fellow believers or misjudging their suffering based on false assumptions.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 22:23
18th Century
Theologian
If you return to the Almighty - Assuming that he was an impenitent sinner, and wholly unreconciled to him.
You shall …
Charles Ellicott
On Job 22:23
19th Century
Bishop
Thou shalt put away iniquity. —All this implies the imputation of apostasy and iniquity to Job.
John Gill
On Job 22:23
17th Century
Pastor
If you return to the Almighty
Which supposes a departure from him; and that is by sinning against him, which should …
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Matthew Henry
On Job 22:21–30
17th Century
Minister
The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had previously not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. …