Teks -- Job 22:12 (NET)

22:12 “Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

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Wesley: Job 22:12 - Heaven

And from that high tower looketh down upon men, to behold, and govern, and recompense all their actions, whether good or bad.

Wesley: Job 22:12 - How high

Yet God is far higher than they, and from thence can easily see all things.

JFB: Job 22:12

Eliphaz says this to prove that God can from His height behold all things; gratuitously inferring that Job denied it, because he denied that the wicked are punished here.

JFB: Job 22:12 - height

Hebrew, "head of the stars"; that is, "elevation" (Job 11:8).

Clarke: Job 22:12 - Is not God in the height of heaven?

Is not God in the height of heaven? - It appears, from this and the following verses, that Eliphaz was attributing infidel and blasphemous speeches or sentiments to Job. As if he had said: "Thou allowest that there is a God, but thou sayest that he is infinitely exalted above the heavens and the stars, and that there is so much dense ether and thick cloud between his throne and the earth, that he can neither see it nor its inhabitants."These were sentiments which Job never held, and never uttered; but if a man be dressed in a bear’ s skin, he may be hunted and worried by his own dogs. Job’ s friends attribute falsities to him, and then dilate upon them, and draw inferences from them injurious to his character. Polemic writers, both in theology and politics, often act in this way.

Defender: Job 22:12 - height of the stars

Even in these ancient times, monotheists like Eliphaz did have at least some understanding of the vastness of the starry heavens."

TSK: Job 22:12 - not God // height // the stars

not God : Psa 115:3, Psa 115:16; Ecc 5:2; Isa 57:15, Isa 66:1

height : Heb. head

the stars : Psa 8:3, Psa 8:4

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Poole: Job 22:12 - Is not God in the height of heaven? // Behold the height of the stars, how high they are

Is not God in the height of heaven? Surely he is; and from that high tower he looketh down upon men , Psa 14:2 , to behold, and govern, and recompense all their actions, whether good or bad. And therefore, O Job, thou art grossly mistaken, in thinking that all things in this lower world are managed by chance, and without any regard to justice, or to just men, and not by the wise and holy providence of God; for this is the genuine consequence of thy great principle, that good men suffer as deeply as any others, whilst the vilest of men are exalted and flourish.

Behold the height of the stars, how high they are yet God is far higher than they, and from thence can easily spy all men and things here below; as the highest places afford the best prospects.

Haydock: Job 22:12 - Stars

Stars: and of course, that his Providence regardeth not human affairs. (Calmet) ---

When an infidel observed, "I think the gods are too great to want my adoration," Socrates well replied, "The greater they appear to thee, the more oughtest thou to treat them with respect and honour." (Xenophon, Memor.)

Gill: Job 22:12 - Is not God in the height of heaven // and behold the height of the stars, how high they are

Is not God in the height of heaven?.... The heaven is high, it has its name from its height, and is noted for it; some of the heavens are higher than others, as the heaven of heavens, the third heaven, the habitation of angels and glorified saints; and here God dwells, this is the habitation of his holiness, and the high and holy place he inhabits; his throne is in heaven, in the heaven of heavens is his throne, where he in an especial manner manifests his glory, and the lustre of it; he is not indeed continued here, the heaven of heavens cannot contain him, he is everywhere; yet this is his court and palace, where his residence and retinue is and angels behold his face, and wait upon him; and because this is the principal seat of his majesty, it becomes one of his names, Dan 4:26; and the words here will bear to be rendered, "is not God the height of the heavens?" ^t or, as the Vulgate Latin version, "higher than the heavens"; he is above them, more exalted than they, being the Creator of them, see Heb 7:26;

and behold the height of the stars, how high they are; or "the head" or "top of the stars" ^u, which Ben Gersom interprets of the supreme orb, or that high and vast space in which the fixed stars are, or the highest of them, which are at the greatest distance; according to Mr. Huygens ^w a cannon ball discharged would be twenty five years in passing from the earth to the sun, from, Jupiter to the sun an hundred twenty five years, from Saturn two hundred fifty, and from the sun to the dog star ^v 691,600 years; and if therefore it would be so long going to the nearest of the fixed stars, how great must be the distance of them from our earth, which are so much higher than the dog star as that is from the sun? But, though these are so exceeding high, yet God is higher than they, see Isa 14:13; the truth contained in these words was what both Eliphaz and Job were agreed in, let them be spoken by which they will, some ascribing them to the One, and some to the other; from whence Eliphaz represents Job drawing an inference very impious, blasphemous, and atheistical.