Job 22 · Verse 15

Job 22:15

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job 22:15, King James Version

Job 22:15 in other translations

BSBWill you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?
WEBWill you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
ASVWilt thou keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden?
YLTThe path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?
DARBYDost thou mark the ancient path which wicked men have trodden?
BBEWill you keep the old way by which evil men went?
WebsterHast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

What does Job 22:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. marked--Rather, Dost thou keep to? that is, wish to follow (so Hebrew, 2Sa 22:22). If so, beware of sharing their end. the old way--the degenerate ways of the world before the flood (Ge 6:5).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 Hast thou marked the old way - This is supposed to be another accusation; as i! he had said, "Thou hollowest the same way that the wicked of old have walked in." Here is an evident allusion to the Flood, as is particularly noted in the next verse.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 22:15-20
Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, that we may not walk therein. But if others are consumed, and we are not, instead of blaming them, and lifting up ourselves, as Eliphaz does here, we ought to be thankful to God, and take it for a warning.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Job 22:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַאֹ֣רַחha.'O.rach¿ a path ofH734
עוֹלָ֣םo.LamantiquityH5769
תִּשְׁמֹ֑רtish.Morwill you keepH8104
אֲשֶׁ֖ר'a.SherwhichH834
דָּרְכ֣וּda.re.Khuthey have troddenH1869
מְתֵי\־me.tei-men ofH4962
אָֽוֶן\׃'A.venwickednessH205

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 22:15

  • Luke 17:26-27

    And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

  • Genesis 6:11-13

    The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

  • Genesis 6:5

    And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the old way.
Ge 6:5,11-13; Lu 17:26,27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 22:14

    Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

  • Job 22:15

    Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

  • Job 22:16

    Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

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Job 22:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¿Quieres tú guardar la senda antigua, que pisaron los hombres perversos?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Observes-tu le sentier ancien où ont marché les hommes vains,
German
Elberfelder 1871		Willst du den Pfad der Vorzeit einhalten, welchen die Frevler betraten,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Numquid semitam sæculorum custodire cupis, quam calcaverunt viri iniqui,