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Job 22:17 Cross-References
Explore 8 cross-references for Job 22:17 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 22 verse 17 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? for: or, to”
Job 22:17 (KJV)
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Commentary on Job 22:17
Which said unto God, Depart from us (הָאֹמְרִים לָאֵל סוּר מִמֶּנּוּ)—Sur mimmennu (depart from us) represents willful rejection of God's authority. Eliphaz quotes the wicked man's defiant cry (compare Job 21:14, where Job quoted this same phrase—but as the wicked's words, not his own!).What can the Almighty do for them? (וּמַה־יִּפְעַל שַׁדַּי לָמוֹ)—This rhetorical question expresses practical atheism: God is irrelevant to our prosperity. Shaddai (Almighty) emphasizes God's power, making the dismissal more blasphemous. Crucially, Eliphaz has taken Job's quotation of the wicked out of context...
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Cross-References for Job 22:17
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“'Depart from us”
“Who will show us any good? Yahweh”
“God gave them up to a reprobate mind”
“and don't miscarry.”
“'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have kept his charge”
“οἱ λέγοντες τοῖς προφήταις μὴ ἀναγγέλλετε ἡμῖν καὶ τοῖς τὰ ὁράματα ὁρῶσιν μὴ λαλεῖτε ἡμῖν ἀλλὰ ἡμῖν λαλεῖτε καὶ ἀναγγέλλετε ἡμῖν ἑτέραν πλάνησιν”
“they cried out”
“all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him”