Job 22 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 22:30
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
Chapter 22
Eliphaz accuses Job and calls him to return
Source chapters: [BHS22] Hebrew; [LXX22] Greek.
Verse 22:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:1 Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both identify the same speaker.
Verse 22:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:2 “Can a man be of use to God?
Indeed, the wise person is of use to himself.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:2 “Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew asks whether humanity benefits God; Greek repeats the divine-teacher question found at its 21:22.
Verse 22:3 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:3 Does Shaddai take pleasure in your righteousness,
or gain anything when you make your ways blameless?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:3 For what does it matter to the Lord
if you were blameless in your works?
Or what benefit is there if you make your way sincere?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both question divine benefit; Greek sincere renders haploo, making single or straightforward.
Verse 22:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:4 Is it because of your reverence that He corrects you
and enters into judgment with you?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:4 Will He reprove you out of consideration for you
and enter together with you into judgment?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek taking account of you differs from Hebrew your reverence, which can also mean fear of you.
Verse 22:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:5 Is not your wickedness great,
and are not your iniquities without end?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:5 Is not your wickedness great,
and are not your sins countless?
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both begin explicit accusations; these are Eliphaz’s claims, not the narrator’s verdict.
Verse 22:6 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:6 For you took pledges from your brothers without cause
and stripped the clothes from the naked.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:6 You took pledges from your brothers for nothing
and removed the clothing of the naked.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both preserve the pointed image of stripping those already described as naked.
Verse 22:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:7 You gave the weary no water to drink,
and withheld bread from the hungry.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:7 You did not even give the thirsty water to drink,
but deprived the hungry of a morsel.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek thirsty differs from Hebrew weary.
Verse 22:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:8 The man of strength possessed the land,
and the favored man lived in it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:8 You showed partiality to certain people
and settled those upon the land.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek directly accuses Job of partiality and settlement; Hebrew describes the powerful landholder.
Verse 22:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:9 You sent widows away empty,
and the arms of orphans were crushed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:9 You sent widows away empty
and mistreated orphans.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek directly names Job’s mistreatment rather than passively broken arms.
Verse 22:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:10 Therefore snares surround you,
and sudden dread terrifies you,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:10 Therefore traps encircled you,
and a terrible war threw you into turmoil;
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek war replaces Hebrew sudden dread.
Verse 22:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:11 or darkness, so that you cannot see,
and an abundance of water covers you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:11 light became darkness for you,
and water covered you as you slept.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek light becoming darkness and a sleeping victim differ from the Hebrew’s compressed or-darkness clause and abundant water.
Verse 22:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:12 Is not God high in the heavens?
See the height of the stars, how lofty they are!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:12 Does not the One dwelling on high observe?
He humbled those carried away by insolence.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek observation and humbling the insolent replace Hebrew stars and their elevation.
Verse 22:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:13 Yet you say, ‘What does God know?
Can He judge through thick darkness?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:13 And you said, ‘What has the Strong One known?
Will He judge down through the gloom?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek kata tou gnophou is a difficult spatial expression, provisionally down through the gloom. The accusation of limited divine knowledge agrees.
Verse 22:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:14 Clouds are His hiding place, so He does not see;
He walks around the vault of heaven.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:14 Clouds are His concealment, and He will not be seen;
He will pass around the circle of heaven.’
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek passive not be seen differs from Hebrew active not see.
Verse 22:15 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:15 Will you keep to the ancient path
that men of wrongdoing trod,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:15 Will you guard the age-old path
that unjust men trod,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both ask about continuing an old wicked path.
Verse 22:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:16 who were snatched away before their time,
whose foundation was poured away as a river?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:16 who were seized before their time?
Their foundations are a river flowing over,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both use abrupt river-and-foundation imagery; Greek’s verbless clause is retained rather than expanded into an explicit flood narrative.
Verse 22:17 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:17 They said to God, ‘Turn away from us!’
And what could Shaddai do to them?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:17 those who say, ‘What will the Lord do to us?
Or what will the Almighty bring upon us?’
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the command to depart and has two questions. Hebrew them rather than us is retained.
Verse 22:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:18 Yet He filled their houses with good things;
the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:18 Yet He is the One who filled their houses with good things,
and the counsel of the ungodly is far from Him.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The final Greek pronoun is third person and provisionally divine, where Hebrew explicitly says from me.
Verse 22:19 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:19 The righteous see and rejoice,
and the innocent mock them:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:19 The righteous saw and laughed,
and the blameless person sneered.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both portray righteous observers reacting to ruin.
Verse 22:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:20 ‘Surely our adversary is wiped out,
and fire has consumed their remainder!’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:20 ‘Surely their substance was obliterated,
and fire will devour their remainder.’
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew kimanu is rare, provisionally our adversary; Greek has their substance or foundation. The remaining material and fire agree.
Verse 22:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:21 Come now, be reconciled with Him and be at peace;
through these things good will come to you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:21 Become firm, then, if you endure;
then your fruit will be among good things.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek firmness and endurance replace Hebrew reconciliation and peace. Skleros literally hard is rendered firm in this exhortation.
Verse 22:22 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:22 Receive instruction from His mouth,
and place His sayings in your heart.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:22 Receive an utterance from His mouth,
and take up His words in your heart.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek exegoria is an utterance or declaration, where Hebrew torah is instruction.
Verse 22:23 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:23 If you return to Shaddai, you will be built up;
put wrongdoing far from your tents.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:23 If you turn back and humble yourself before the Lord,
you have put injustice far from your dwelling.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek self-humbling differs from Hebrew being rebuilt; its final past tense is retained.
Verse 22:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:24 Place gold ore upon the dust,
and Ophir among the rocks of the torrents;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:24 You will place it upon a mound, in a rock,
and, like a rock, the torrents of Ophir.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The Greek is exceptionally difficult: its first object is unexpressed, and accusative torrents differs from Hebrew’s placement of Ophir gold among torrent rocks. This provisional wording preserves the displayed forms without silently replacing them with Hebrew; construction requires specialist review.
Verse 22:25 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:25 then Shaddai will be your gold ore
and precious silver to you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:25 Then the Almighty will be your helper against enemies,
and He will render you pure like silver refined by fire.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek help against enemies and purification differ from Hebrew God as precious metal. Hebrew toafot, here precious, remains lexically uncertain.
Verse 22:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:26 For then you will delight in Shaddai
and lift your face toward God.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:26 Then you will speak freely before the Lord,
looking up cheerfully toward heaven.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek confident speech and cheerful heavenly gaze replace Hebrew delight and lifting the face to God.
Verse 22:27 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:27 You will plead with Him, and He will hear you;
you will fulfill your vows.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:27 When you pray to Him, He will hear you,
and He will enable you to fulfill your vows.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly makes ability to fulfill vows God’s gift.
Verse 22:28 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:28 You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you;
light will shine upon your ways.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:28 He will restore a dwelling of righteousness to you,
and brightness will be upon your ways.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek restored righteous dwelling replaces Hebrew establishment of a declared matter.
Verse 22:29 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:29 When they bring low, you will say, ‘A lifting up!’
He saves the one whose eyes are lowered.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:29 For He humbled him, and you will say, ‘He was arrogant’;
He will save the one with downcast eyes.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew’s unnamed plural agents and lifting up differ from Greek singular humbling and an accusation of arrogance. Both compressed clauses are provisional.
Verse 22:30 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
22:30 He will deliver even the one who is not innocent;
he will escape through the purity of your hands.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
22:30 He will rescue an innocent person;
and be saved through your clean hands.”
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew i-naqi is provisionally not innocent, against Greek innocent; Greek then changes to a second-person imperative. Both grammatical differences are retained.