Job 22:20

Job 22:20 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
• New International Version (NIV)‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.’
• English Standard Version (ESV)saying, 'Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘Surely our adversaries are cut down, And the fire consumes their remnant.’

Context of Job 22:20

18Yet he filled their houses with good things: But the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19The righteous see it, and are glad; And the innocent laugh them to scorn, Saying, Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed. 21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee. 22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.

Job 22:20 word by word

אִם־לֹ֣א נִכְחַ֣ד קִימָ֑נוּ וְ֝יִתְרָ֗ם אָ֣כְלָה אֵֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear

• fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
• consumedאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398

Cross-references for Job 22:20

• Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
• Job 8:3Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
• Job 15:5For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
• Job 20:18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.
• Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
• Luke 13:1Now there were some present at that very season who told him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
• Job 1:16While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
• Job 20:26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown by man shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
• Genesis 19:24Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;
• Luke 17:29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:
• 2 Peter 2:6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;

Commentaries on Job 22:20

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20Whereas our substance is not cut down - We, who fear the Lord, still continue in health and peace; whereas they who have departed from him are destroyed even to their very remnant. Mr. Good thinks that קימנו kimanu, which we translate our substance, is the same as the Arabic (Arabic) our people or tribe; and hence he translates the clause thus: "For our tribe is not cut off; while even the remnant of these a conflagration consumed." The reference here is…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-20Verses 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.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-20The righteous see it and are glad: Those in a right relationship with God will be glad to see justice done and wrong things made right (see also Psalm 58:10–11; Revelation 19:1–4). Eliphaz's perspective overlooked God's wish "that the wicked should turn from their ways and live" (see Ezekiel 33:11).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. The triumphant speech of the pious. If "substance" be retained, translate, rather as the Septuagint, "Has not their substance been taken away, and ... ?" But the Hebrew is rather, "Truly our adversary is cut down" [Gesenius]. The same opposition exists between the godly and ungodly seed as between the unfallen and restored Adam and Satan (adversary); this forms the groundwork of the book (Job 1:1-2:13; Ge 3:15). remnant--all that "is left" of the…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Acquaint
• Decree
• Lift
• Sudden
• Thereby
• Eliphaz (2)
• Eliphaz

Commentaries on Job 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings