Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 34:22
[There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
There is no darkness – No dark cavern which can furnish a place of concealment. The guilty usually take refuge in some obscure place where people cannot detect them. But Elihu says that man has no power of concealing himself thus from God.
Nor shadow of death – A phrase here signifying deep darkness; see it explained in the notes at Job 3:5.
Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves – That is, where they may conceal themselves so as not to be detected by God. They may conceal themselves from the notice of man; they may escape the most vigilant police; they may elude all the officers of justice on earth. But they cannot be hid from God. There is an eye that sees their lurking places, and there is a hand that will drag them forth to justice.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 22. There is no darkness] In this life; and no shadow of death in the other world-no annihilation in which the workers of iniquity may hide themselves, or take refuge.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
They may flatter themselves, or cheat others, by covering their wicked actions with plausible pretences and professions; but they cannot deceive God, nor keep their hearts and ways from his sight.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
22. shadow of deaththickdarkness (Amo 9:2; Amo 9:3;Psa 139:12).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. By whom may be meant chiefly profane sinners that are abandoned to a vicious course of life, and make a trade of sin, or that the common course of their lives; though secret sinners, and even professors of religion, hypocrites, who in a more private manner live in sin, come under this name, Mt 7:23; such may endeavour to hide themselves through shame and fear, but all in vain and to no purpose; there is no screening themselves and their actions from the all-seeing eye of God, and from his wrath and vengeance. “No darkness” of any sort can hide them, not the thick clouds of the heavens, nor the darkness of the night; nor is there any darkness in God that can obstruct his sight of them; nor are they able to cast any mist before his eyes, or use any colourings, pretences, and excuses he cannot see through. “Nor shadow of death”: the grossest and thickest darkness; nor is even the grave itself an hiding place for sinners, from whence they will be raised to receive the just deserts of their sins. See Job 10:21. Now from the omniscience of God, and his clear uninterrupted sight of all persons and their actions, inward and outward, Elihu argues to the justice of God, who therefore cannot do anything amiss through ignorance, error, or mistake.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(22) There is no darkness.As Job had perhaps seemed to imply in Job. 24:13-16.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
The unerring righteouness of the divine government is made both possible and necessary by the OMNISCIENCE OF GOD. All men, with all their deeds, are naked and open before him, and he needs no inquisition in order to form and pronounce a righteous judgment, (Job 34:21-24.) “He cannot, therefore, through ignorance, punish the innocent nor the guilty beyond their true demerit.” Scott.
22. Shadow of death Used here, as elsewhere, in the same association with darkness, (Job 3:5; Job 10:21; Job 28:3,) for the darkness of sheol. In all God’s creation even in sheol there is no veil of darkness that can hide the sinner. Deeds of darkness, like the seed of certain plants, are by nature’s ordinance winged against concealment or final destruction. The wish on the part of the evil doer to hide sin involves an acknowledgment that there is justice over the creation, and points to an everlasting contest between the Supreme will to detect and the human interest to conceal, as John Foster shows in a thoughtful discourse on this text. ( Broadmead Lec. 1:167-175.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 34:22. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death i.e. “Not death itself shall conceal the workers of iniquity from the eye of God, or withdraw them from his justice: Men may flatter themselves with the hope of annihilation, if they please; but they will find themselves sadly disappointed when they come to make trial of the other state.” Peters. Instead of that he should enter, in the latter clause of the next verse, Heath reads, When he shall enter.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Job 34:22 [There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Ver. 22. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, &c. ] Sinners would fain shroud and secrete themselves from God’s all seeing eye; for which end they search all corners, with Adam, and hope that their evil pranks and practices shall never come to light; but that cannot be, for not only darkness and the shadow of death, but hell also, is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering, Job 26:6 ; See Trapp on “ Job 26:6 “ See also Psa 139:12 Amo 9:2-3 Heb 4:13 . See Trapp on “ Psa 139:12 “ See Trapp on “ Amo 9:2 “ See Trapp on “ Amo 9:3 “ See Trapp on “ Heb 4:13 “
Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
darkness. Hebrew. hashak. See note on Job 3:6.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
no: Psa 139:11, Psa 139:12, Isa 29:15, Jer 23:24, Amo 9:2, Amo 9:3, 1Co 4:5, Heb 4:13, Rev 6:15, Rev 6:16
nor: Job 3:5, Job 24:17, Isa 9:2
the: Job 31:3, Psa 5:5, Pro 10:29, Mat 7:23, Luk 13:27
Reciprocal: Gen 3:8 – cool of the day Gen 18:21 – see Job 10:22 – the shadow of death Job 12:22 – bringeth Job 22:14 – General Psa 33:15 – considereth Psa 44:21 – Shall Psa 139:8 – in hell Pro 15:3 – General Jer 16:17 – General Jer 44:25 – ye will Eze 8:8 – General Mat 4:16 – shadow
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 34:22-23. There is no darkness, &c. The workers of iniquity may flatter themselves, or deceive others, by covering their wicked actions with plausible pretences and professions, but they cannot deceive God, nor conceal their ways or hearts from his inspection. He will not lay upon man more than right More or heavier punishments than they deserve, or than are proportionable to their sins, which he accurately observes, and therefore can adapt punishments to them; that he should enter into judgment, &c. Thereby to give him any pretence or occasion of entering into judgment with him, or of condemning his proceedings, for which there might seem to be some colour, if God did lay upon man more than is right.