Job 22 (WEB)

God

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Yahweh, the Personal Name of God

Word Study | Israel Loken • Hershel Wayne House
יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh ·Strong's H3068

Strictly speaking, the only personal name of God belonging to Him alone, and the most significant name of God found in the Old Testament (over 5000 times).  Yahweh is the approximate (and likely) pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, the four-letter word YHWH.  When Moses asked what His name was to take back to the Hebrews in Egypt, God replied, “I AM THAT I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה ehyeh esher ehyeh): and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה, ehyeh, 1st person singular, giving God's declaration of His name) has sent me to you” (Exod 3:14).  Thus God revealed to Moses the very essential meaning of His name as Yahweh (יְהוָ֞ה, Yahweh, 3rd person singular, the response of the people of God, He is).  There is a strong indication that Jesus (or Yeshua, Yahweh is salvation) used this name and its divine implication to apply to himself when he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (ἐγὼ εἰμί, egō eimi) (John 8:58).  Thus, the very Person who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush was the very same Person who addressed the startled Jews in the Gospel of John.

For a more complete discussion of the personal name of God, see the passage in Exodus in which He reveals His name to Moses, Exodus 3:14, 15.

A Name of God (אֱלֹהִים; 'elohim)

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House
אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym ·Strong's H430

This is a generic name for the divine being. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is regularly used in the plural in reference to the God of Israel but in regard to His majesty or intensity. The plural has a third person singular with the God of Israel, but a third plural with foreign deities.

Abba, Father

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House • Steve Stanley
Ἀββᾶ Abbâ ·Strong's G5

This Aramaic term is used only three times in the NT and approximately 80 times in the writings of the early church fathers when quoting or paraphrasing Jesus’ words. It is translated by the very next word in this verse as ὁ πατήρ (ho pater) “the Father,” as it is in all three NT uses. Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Hebrew, both languages being used in Israel. In Jesus’ day, abba was used for the father in the family, and was a customary title for God in prayer among the Jews. It was eventually taken over by Greek-speaking Christians as a liturgical formula. Some posit that abba is equivalent to “daddy,” an American English term for “father.” This assumes that the American informality expressed by children toward their father would have an analogy in Jesus’ culture, an assumption difficult to sustain. It is, therefore, not appropriate to refer to God as “daddy.” Linguistically, then, abba means "father" in Hebrew, Greek and English. It must be noted, however, that while “father” is a term of respect in biblical literature, it is also a term of affection, very deep and abiding affection. With His use of “Abba,” Jesus expresses His respectful and intimate relationship with His Heavenly Father in prayer, a wonderful example for all believers.

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Job 22 (WEB)

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

2“Can a man be profitable to God?

Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous?

Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?

4Is it for your piety that he reproves you,

that he enters with you into judgment?

5Isn’t your wickedness great?

Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing,

and stripped the naked of their clothing.

7You haven’t given water to the weary to drink,

and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth.

The honorable man, he lived in it.

9You have sent widows away empty,

and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

10Therefore snares are around you.

Sudden fear troubles you,

11or darkness, so that you can not see,

and floods of waters cover you.

12“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven?

See the height of the stars, how high they are!

13You say, ‘What does God know?

Can he judge through the thick darkness?

14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see.

He walks on the vault of the sky.’

15Will you keep the old way,

which wicked men have trodden,

16who were snatched away before their time,

whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

17who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’

and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

18Yet he filled their houses with good things,

but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

19The righteous see it, and are glad.

The innocent ridicule them,

20saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off.

The fire has consumed their remnant.’

21“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace.

By it, good will come to you.

22Please receive instruction from his mouth,

and lay up his words in your heart.

23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up,

if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

24Lay your treasure in the dust,

the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

25The Almighty will be your treasure,

and precious silver to you.

26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty,

and will lift up your face to God.

27You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you.

You will pay your vows.

28You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you.

Light will shine on your ways.

29When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’

He will save the humble person.

30He will even deliver him who is not innocent.

Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

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