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Job 22:13

Job 22:13
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not,.... Thus Job is made to speak, or to reason as atheistical persons, or such who are inclined to atheism would, who take God to be altogether such…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And thou sayest, How doth God know? - That is, it “follows” from what you have said; or the opinion which you have advanced is “the same” as if you had affirmed this. How common it is to charge a man…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 22:5-14

Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeachment against him, until…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 22:12-20

Eliphaz, having in Job 22:6-10 suggested what Job's offences must have been, now suggests under what feeling in regard to God he must have committed them. He thought God so far removed from the world…