\\INTRODUCTION TO JOB 22\\

This chapter contains the third and last reply of Eliphaz to Job, in
which he charges him with having too high an opinion of himself, of his
holiness and righteousness, as if God was profited by it, and laid
thereby under obligation to him, whereas he was not, \\#Job 22:1-3\\; and
as if he reproved and chastised him, because of his fear of him,
whereas it was because of his sins, \\#Job 22:4,5\\; an enumeration of
which he gives, as of injustice, oppression, cruelty to the poor, and
even of atheism and infidelity, for which snares and fears were around
him, and various calamities, \\#Job 22:6-14\\; and compares his way and
course of life to that of the men of the old world, and the inhabitants
of Sodom and Gomorrah, and suggests that his end would be like theirs,
unless he repented, \\#Job 22:15-20\\; and then concludes with an
exhortation to him to return to God by repentance, and to reform, when
he should see happy times again, and enjoy much outward and inward
prosperity, and be an instrument of doing much good to many,
\\#Job 22:21-30\\.