Christian Standard Bible
Job 22:20
20“Surely our opponents are destroyed, and fire has consumed what they left behind.”
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
18But it was he who filled their houses with good things. The counsel of the wicked is far from me! 19The righteous see this and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying, “Surely our opponents are destroyed, and fire has consumed what they left behind.” 21Come to terms with God and be at peace; in this way good will come to you. 22Receive instruction from his mouth, and place his sayings in your heart.
Read all of Job 22Job 22:20 word by word
אִם־לֹ֣א נִכְחַ֣ד קִימָ֑נוּ וְ֝יִתְרָ֗ם אָ֣כְלָה אֵֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 22:20
- Job 4:7Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?
- Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Job 15:5Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Job 20:18He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.
- Job 21:27I know your thoughts very well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Luke 13:1At that time, some people came and reported to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
- Job 1:16He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported, “God’s fire fell from heaven. It burned the sheep and the servants and devoured them, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Job 20:26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned by human hands will consume him; it will feed on what is left in his tent.
- Genesis 19:24Then out of the sky the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah burning sulfur from the Lord.
- Luke 17:29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all.
- 2 Peter 2:6and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is coming to the 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
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
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