Job 22:14

"You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?"

Key Reflection

This verse highlights the human tendency to question God's omniscience and justice, particularly in the face of suffering or injustice, where darkness (ignorance or obscurity) seems to prevail. It underscores the common human struggle to understand divine judgment when evil appears to flourish unchallenged.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Thick clouds are a covering to him -This is to be understood as expressing what Eliphaz regarded as the sentiment of Job - that so thick clouds intervened between him and man that he could not take cognizance of what was going forward on earth. And he walketh in the circuit of heaven -Upon the arch of heaven, as it seems to be bent over our heads. He walks above that cerulean, so high, that he cannot see what occurs on earth, and to punish mortals. This was not an uncommon sentiment among the ancients, though it is here, with the greatest injustice, attributed to Job.

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