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Is it because of your piety[a] that he rebukes you
and goes to judgment with you?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:4 tn The word “your fear” or “your piety” refers to Job’s reverence—it is his fear of God (thus a subjective genitive). When “fear” is used of religion, it includes faith and adoration on the positive side, fear and obedience on the negative.
  2. Job 22:4 sn Of course the point is that God does not charge Job because he is righteous; the point is he must be unrighteous.