Job 22:4

Eliphaz sarcastically asks whether God is punishing Job for his piety, implying instead that Job's sin is the obvious cause. He rules out any explanation but guilt.

Cross-references · 16

• Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
• Ps 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
• Isa 3:14–15The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
• Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
• Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
• Job 19:29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
• Job 23:6–7Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.
• Ps 130:3–4If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
• Job 34:23For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
• Job 7:12Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?
• Ps 80:16Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
• Ps 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
• Job 16:21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
• Ps 76:6At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned.
• Job 9:32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
• Eccl 12:14For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

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