Job 22:8
New International Version
though you were a powerful man, owning land— an honored man, living on it.

New Living Translation
You probably think the land belongs to the powerful and only the privileged have a right to it!

English Standard Version
The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it.

Berean Standard Bible
while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

King James Bible
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

New King James Version
But the mighty man possessed the land, And the honorable man dwelt in it.

New American Standard Bible
“But the earth belongs to the powerful man, And the one who is honorable dwells on it.

NASB 1995
“But the earth belongs to the mighty man, And the honorable man dwells in it.

NASB 1977
“But the earth belongs to the mighty man, And the honorable man dwells in it.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the earth belongs to the mighty man, And the highly respected man inhabits it.

Amplified Bible
“But the land is possessed by the man with power, And the favored and honorable man dwells in it.

Christian Standard Bible
while the land belonged to a powerful man and an influential man lived on it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
while the land belonged to a powerful man and an influential man lived on it.

American Standard Version
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
There is a man who sows the land for himself , and a lord will take it from him by force

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou hast accepted the persons of some; and thou hast established those that were already settled on the earth.

Contemporary English Version
although you were rich, respected, and powerful.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.

English Revised Version
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man, he dwelt in it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A strong person owns the land. A privileged person lives in it.

Good News Translation
You used your power and your position to take over the whole land.

International Standard Version
The land belongs to the powerful, and the privileged thrive in it.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And as a mighty man, who hath the earth, And as a man of rank, who dwelleth in it,

Literal Standard Version
As for the man of arm—he has the earth, | And the accepted of face—he dwells in it.

Majority Standard Bible
while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

New American Bible
As if the land belonged to the powerful, and only the privileged could dwell in it!

NET Bible
Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

New Revised Standard Version
The powerful possess the land, and the favored live in it.

New Heart English Bible
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

Webster's Bible Translation
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.

World English Bible
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

Young's Literal Translation
As to the man of arm -- he hath the earth, And the accepted of face -- he dwelleth in it.

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Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
7You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished, 8while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it. 9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.…

Cross References
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

Job 12:19
He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.

Isaiah 3:3
the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

Isaiah 9:15
The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.


Treasury of Scripture

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelled in it.

But as

Job 29:7-17
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! …

Job 31:34
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

1 Kings 21:11-15
And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them…

mighty man.

Job 13:8
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

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Job 22
1. Eliphaz shows that man's goodness profits not God
5. He accuses Job of various sins
21. He exhorts him to repentance, with promises of mercy














(8) But as for the mighty man.--By the "mighty and the honourable" man is probably meant Job. Some understand the words from Job 22:5-10 inclusive, as the words spoken by God on entering into judgment with Job (Job 22:4); but this hardly seems probable.

Verse 8. - But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; literally, as for the man of arm; i.e. the man strong of arm. Job's retainers are probably meant, whom Eliphaz supposes to have been allowed by Job to oppress the poor, and have their own way in the world. This charge was doubtless as baseless as the others (comp. Job 29:16, 17). And the honourable man dwelt in it; of the accepted man - "the favoured man," i.e. those of whom Job approved and whom he favoured.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
while the land
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

belonged to a mighty
זְ֭רוֹעַ (zə·rō·w·a‘)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2220: The arm, the foreleg, force

man,
וְאִ֣ישׁ (wə·’îš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

and a man
וּנְשׂ֥וּא (ū·nə·śū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

of honor
פָ֝נִ֗ים (p̄ā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face

lived
יֵ֣שֶׁב (yê·šeḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

on it.
בָּֽהּ׃ (bāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew


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