Job 22:8
Good News Translation
You used your power and your position to take over the whole land.

New Revised Standard Version
The powerful possess the land, and the favored live in it.

Contemporary English Version
although you were rich, respected, and powerful.

New American Bible
As if the land belonged to the powerful, and only the privileged could dwell in it!

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.

But as

Job 29:7-17 When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair? . . .

Job 31:34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.

1 Kings 21:11-15 And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them; . . .

Psalm 12:8 The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.

Micah 7:3 The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

mighty man.

Job 13:8 Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
7Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry. 8In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.…
Cross References
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

Job 12:19
He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.

Isaiah 3:3
The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech.

Isaiah 9:15
The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Job 22:7
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