Job Chapter 22 verse 22 Holy Bible
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.
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Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
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Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
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Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
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Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
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Please receive instruction from his mouth, And lay up his words in your heart.
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Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth; or, receive now instruction from his mouth. The supposition of some commentators, that the "Law of Moses" is intended, is negatived by the entire absence from the Book of any allusion to the details of the Mosaic legislation, as well as by the primitive character of the life depicted in the book, and the certainty that no one of the interlocutors is an Israelite. The Hebrew תּורה, without the article prefixed, is properly "instruction," and is only to be assumed as meaning "the Law" when the context shows this meaning to be probable. The "instruction" to which Eliphaz here points, and which he regards as instruction from God's mouth, is probably the teaching of religious men, such as himself, which he considered to have come from God originally, though, perhaps, he could not have explained how. And lay up his words in thine heart. This is a mere variant of the preceding clause, and adds no fresh idea.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) The law from his mouth.--It would be highly interesting to know whether by this law (Torah), the Law, the Torah, was in any way alluded to. One is naturally disposed to think that since Job seems to be the one Gentile book of the Old Testament, the one book in which the literature of Israel touches the world at large, it must, therefore, be prior to the Law, or else have been written in independence and ignorance of it. The former seems by far the more reasonable supposition, and certainly the life depicted appears to be that of the patriarchal times before the giving of the Law. And yet, on the other hand, it is hard to know what could be meant by "His words" prior to the Mosaic Revelation, unless, indeed, the expression is a witness to the consciousness of that inner revelation of the voice of God in the conscience which the holy in all ages have never wanted.
