Job 22:15 Will you keep to the old path that the wicked have trod?

◄ Job 22:15 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Will you keep to the old path that the wicked have trod?

English Standard Version
Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?

New American Standard Bible
"Will you keep to the ancient path Which wicked men have trod,

King James Bible
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Will you continue on the ancient path that wicked men have walked?

International Standard Version
"Will you keep walking on the traditional path that sinners have tread,

American Standard Version
Wilt thou keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?

Darby Bible Translation
Dost thou mark the ancient path which wicked men have trodden?

Young's Literal Translation
The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

22:15-20 Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, that we may not walk therein. But if others are consumed, and we are not, instead of blaming them, and lifting up ourselves, as Eliphaz does here, we ought to be thankful to God, and take it for a warning.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

15. marked—Rather, Dost thou keep to? that is, wish to follow (so Hebrew, 2Sa 22:22). If so, beware of sharing their end.

the old way—the degenerate ways of the world before the flood (Ge 6:5).