Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
Parallel translations
- WEB Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
- KJV Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
- NKJV Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquity without end?
- NASB “Is your wickedness not abundant, And is there no end to your guilty deeds?
- NLT No, it’s because of your wickedness! There’s no limit to your sins.
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Quick answer
Eliphaz bluntly charges that Job's wickedness is great and his sins are endless. He moves from insinuation to open accusation.
Overview
Having only hinted before, Eliphaz now declares Job a great sinner. This accusation is false, as the reader knows from chapters 1-2, where God Himself calls Job blameless. The verse shows the danger of judging others by their circumstances; the friends slander a righteous man because their theology cannot accommodate his suffering.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 40:12For 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 15:5–6For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Job 15:31–34Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
- Job 32:3and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
- Job 4:7–11Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- Job 11:14if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 11:6and 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.
- Ps 19:12Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
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