Job 22:13-15 New English Translation
13 But you have said, ‘What does God know?
Does he judge through such deep darkness?[a]
14 Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us,[b]
as he goes back and forth
in the vault[c] of heaven.’[d]
15 Will you keep to the old path[e]
that evil men have walked—
Footnotes
- Job 22:13 sn Eliphaz is giving to Job the thoughts and words of the pagans, for they say, “How does God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?” (see Pss 73:11; 94:11).
- Job 22:14 tn Heb “and he does not see.” The implied object is “us.”
- Job 22:14 sn The word is “circle; dome”; here it is the dome that covers the earth, beyond which God sits enthroned. A. B. Davidson (Job, 165) suggests “on the arch of heaven” that covers the earth.
- Job 22:14 sn The idea suggested here is that God is not only far off, but he is unconcerned as he strolls around heaven—this is what Eliphaz says Job means.
- Job 22:15 tn The “old path” here is the way of defiance to God. The text in these two verses is no doubt making reference to the flood in Genesis, one of the perennial examples of divine judgment.
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