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.
SDA Bible Commentary (limited)
Volume 1-7
17. Depart from us. Job had previously ascribed this saying to the prosperous wicked (ch.21:14, 15).
For them. The LXX and the Syriac here read, “for us,” thus making the sentence a further expression of arrogance.